Comments on: BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL & BOMBS >> Tough Guys Don’t Play Nice

By: Brian Greene

Brian Greene — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:32:24 +0000

If you enjoy Jack’s Return Home (Get Carter) that much, you should give Lewis’s novel GBH (Grievous Bodily Harm in the U.S. edition) a try. It’s Lewis’s best novel, although it’s not nearly as well known as the Carter novel. Lewis was a brilliant writer and fascinating character.

By: bob j. elhoff

bob j. elhoff — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:08:28 +0000

From a library-goer’s standpoint, I don’t see why the publishing and readers worlds don’t collude to bring out a consolidated book for both the Donald Hamilton/matt helm and the Lester Dent/doc savage action novels. The Doc Savage Omnibuses had the right idea, but didn’t include more than two of the better novels in one issue. What is needed is a combination of how Hamilton and Dent technically wrote-i.e. Hamilton’s knowledge of knife-fighting and attitudes on productive/’progressive’ secret agent work; and Dent’s Master Fiction Plot and move from scientific to action suspense-WITH five of the 75 or so better Doc Savage novels and three of the Matt Helm pre-Revengers novels and two of those from Revengers on,including the yet unpublished (2000)Dominators. These books would have to be priced somehow to stay in print at least a decade and library patrons would have to suggest them for their local branch/system collections.

By: Deanna Stillings

Deanna Stillings — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:29:09 +0000

I haven’t yet read anything by Ted Lewis – he is now on my t-b-r list, but to me the best British was Michael Gilbert’s “Smallbone Deceased”.

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:40:17 +0000

yeah, the Helm books are noticeable in their absence. with the Parker & Archer books out or being reissued, the new Bond editions, new Charlie Chan reprints as well. Not to mention the Shadow and Doc Savage reissues it’s exceedingly odd nobody has jumped on the Helms. I can even imagine the new “neo-pulp” cover art. Even some of The Destroyer books were back out for a bit.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:45:47 +0000

I’ve been banging the Matt Helm reissue drum since this column started. The Archer books are actually two diffrent designs the new ones that came out I find superior with the Black & White photography compared to ht earlier reissues.

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:19:35 +0000

The Matt Helm books are the first series I ever read start to finish, and every couple of years I read through them again. They’re fantastic. I’d love to see them back in print in new editions like the Archer and Parker books.

By: montyburnz

montyburnz — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:33:02 +0000

I’ve always wondered if THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY was worth watching. Thanks!

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:26:47 +0000

Hamilton’s “Death of A Citizen” hooked me on spy novels, while introducing me to Matt Helm. Although I often strayed to other series, I always came back to Matt Helm. One of the best!