Mickey Spillane earned his place in crime fiction with series of novels featuring tough as nail private investigator Mike Hammer, and this novel is good example of Spillane's clean and effective style. Plot begins in first chapter where Mike Hammer, sitting in some bar encounters frightened man with his child, and after some time he leaves just to be murdered by some gangster in drive by shooting. Taking child in his own hands, Hammer begins to unravel mystery of killing only to be involved in underworld filled with gangsters, often working on his own with a little help from his pal from the police and district attorney up his ass. Spillane's prose is even more hardboiled than that of Hammett and Marlowe and posses some poetic quality in it.
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