John asks,
"Would anyone consider the Quiller spy series as being
hard-boiled?"
I certainly would, far more so than James Bond who's been
mentioned on this list several times. In fact, Adam Hall
(along with Joe Gores, Robert L. Fish, Dorothy Uhnak,and
Michael Collins) would all be on my "second five." I should
also mention Mickey Spillane, who I hated when I first read
one book by him in high school. Later, persuaded to give him
a second try, I found I *was* blown away. Spillane fails to
make either my first or second five because of the initial
antipathy. Since the definition of "blown away" was very
specific, I tried to think of writers I truly tried to devour
everything by as soon as I read them who fell, at least
marginally, into the HB category. The reason this includes
mostly pre-1980 writers is that, for me, the "blown away"
experience mostly came in my school days.
JIM DOHERTY
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