Comments on: BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL & BOMBS >> Hammer and Tongs http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-a-hammer-and-tongs/ reading material to get excited about Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:15:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » Dead Street http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-a-hammer-and-tongs/comment-page-1/#comment-19822 Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » Dead Street Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:45:42 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=721#comment-19822 [...] BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF THESE AUTHORS: • BLACK ALLEY by Mickey Spillane • BLACK HATS by Patrick Culhane • THE DELTA FACTOR by Mickey Spillane • [...] [...] BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF THESE AUTHORS: • BLACK ALLEY by Mickey Spillane • BLACK HATS by Patrick Culhane • THE DELTA FACTOR by Mickey Spillane • [...]

]]> By: Bookgasm » Blog Archive » BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL & BOMBS >> Guns N’ Gams http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-a-hammer-and-tongs/comment-page-1/#comment-9565 Bookgasm » Blog Archive » BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL & BOMBS >> Guns N’ Gams Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:06:48 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=721#comment-9565 [...] BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF THESE AUTHORS: • BLACK ALLEY by Mickey Spillane • DANCE WITH THE DEAD by Richard S. Prather • THE DELTA FACTOR by Mickey [...] [...] BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF THESE AUTHORS: • BLACK ALLEY by Mickey Spillane • DANCE WITH THE DEAD by Richard S. Prather • THE DELTA FACTOR by Mickey [...]

]]> By: J. Goard http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-a-hammer-and-tongs/comment-page-1/#comment-4497 J. Goard Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:28:39 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=721#comment-4497 <i>I mean, if Spillane had stuck with age, I don’t think we would see a 70-year-old detective getting pushed around.</i> That's nothing compared with Hercule Poirot, who was <i>retired</i> after a storied career in Christie's first novel (1920), old and weary by "Roger Ackroyd" (1926) and still solving cases in the late sixties. I don't think he took any kicks to the rib, true, but at 110 (at least) it's rather impressive that he would still care so much about eating the very best food and keeping his moustache perfectly neat. I mean, if Spillane had stuck with age, I don’t think we would see a 70-year-old detective getting pushed around.

That’s nothing compared with Hercule Poirot, who was retired after a storied career in Christie’s first novel (1920), old and weary by “Roger Ackroyd” (1926) and still solving cases in the late sixties. I don’t think he took any kicks to the rib, true, but at 110 (at least) it’s rather impressive that he would still care so much about eating the very best food and keeping his moustache perfectly neat.

]]> By: Bilwick http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-a-hammer-and-tongs/comment-page-1/#comment-4475 Bilwick Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:21:39 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=721#comment-4475 I was more or less underwhelmed with Spillane's final two Mike Hammer novels, especially the last one. I kept hoping he would do one last good Hammer novel and also the sequel to THE DELTA FACTOR that was promised decades ago--I think the working title was "The Consummata" or something odd like that--but alas, no. I liked THE DELTA FACTOR more than you did; it was definitely lesser Spillane, but I thought the climactic break-out from the Rose Castle was one of the best action sequences Spillane ever wrote. Of his non-Hammer stuff I had a special fondness for the Tiger Mann counterspy series he did in the mid-Sixties. It was clearly an attempt by Spillane and/or his publishers to cash in on the Sixties' spy craze, but Spillane brought his special touch to the (unfortunately) short-lived series, and I liked that he kept the action in all four books confined mainly to New York City. That was Spillane's special turf and I always felt his writing about NYC had an extra power to it. In fact, one non-Hammer book that I thought pretty good was THE DEEP. The opening chapter was a great mood-setter; the setting, a divey bar on a rainy NYC night, so typically Spillane; and that phrase "half-bagged bim" has stayed with me most of my life. I was more or less underwhelmed with Spillane’s final two Mike Hammer novels, especially the last one. I kept hoping he would do one last good Hammer novel and also the sequel to THE DELTA FACTOR that was promised decades ago–I think the working title was “The Consummata” or something odd like that–but alas, no. I liked THE DELTA FACTOR more than you did; it was definitely lesser Spillane, but I thought the climactic break-out from the Rose Castle was one of the best action sequences Spillane ever wrote.
Of his non-Hammer stuff I had a special fondness for the Tiger Mann counterspy series he did in the mid-Sixties. It was clearly an attempt by Spillane and/or his publishers to cash in on the Sixties’ spy craze, but Spillane brought his special touch to the (unfortunately) short-lived series, and I liked that he kept the action in all four books confined mainly to New York City. That was Spillane’s special turf and I always felt his writing about NYC had an extra power to it.
In fact, one non-Hammer book that I thought pretty good was THE DEEP. The opening chapter was a great mood-setter; the setting, a divey bar on a rainy NYC night, so typically Spillane; and that phrase “half-bagged bim” has stayed with me most of my life.

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