The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume I

Mickey Spillane; Max Allan Collins
Penguin Publishing Group
 9780451203526
0-451-20352-6

A triple-shot anthology featuring the first three Mike Hammer novels--from the undisputed master of detective fiction.In Mickey Spillane's classic detective novels, the action exploded in a bone-crunching.

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catharsis. Men and women didn't make love, they collided. Tough brutes used their fists to drive home a message. Tougher broads used guile. And no one's morals were loftier than the gutter. No apologies. Little redemption. They rendered critics powerless, shocked intellectuals, inspired a new wave of pulp mayhem, and left the public hungry for more.Given their hot, fever-pitch prose and breathless pacing, Spillane's Mike Hammer novels quickly became one of the most successful series in publishing history--an innovative, no-holds-barred, ultravisceral explosion of sex and violence that made Hammer a literary legend, and Spillane, one of the bestselling authors of all time. After fifty years, neither has lost their power to sucker punch the reader.Find out for yourself in this omnibus featuring the first three Mike Hammer novels by the living master of the hard-boiled mystery... Includes: I, the JuryMy Gun is QuickVengeance is Mine!