Jim Winter wrote:
Love him, hate him, Mike Hammer is a product of his times as
much as Marlowe or Spenser or Patrick Kenzie. The paranoia
and rage ooze throughout this story, especially in the latter
half, when Hammer decides he's been too soft up until
now.
************* Mike Hammer is modelled after Carroll John
Daly's Race Williams character, who made his debut in the
early 20s. When Spillane wrote Daly a letter thanking him for
the inspiration, Daly sued him.
The reasons behind rage and paranoia follow fashion, but the
raw emotions themselves have been constants in literature
from the very beginning.
miker
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