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...serious fiction writer, showing a brisk contempt for the elevated anguish of creating literature. In just five years, between 1947 and 1952, he served up seven novels: I, the Jury; My Gun Is Quick; Vengeance Is Mine!; One Lonely Night; The Big Kill; Kiss Me, Deadly; and the non-Hammer story The Long Wait. (The six Hammers are collected in two volumes of The Mike Hammer Collection.) By the mid-50s, those seven titles were among the ten all-time best-sellers. When his critics deplored this stat, Spillane riposted, "Aaah, you're lucky I didn't write three more...
...monicker is Mike Hammer, kid. I'm a private...
...Mike Hammer was not your typical gumshoe - at least, not when he made his debut, in I, the Jury, in 1947. A hero with thug tendencies, or a sociopath who fancied himself a hero, Hammer beat up people who got in his way, consistently misled his protector on the police force and, rather than turn the murderer over to the authorities, killed first and asked questions never. He was the bane of civilized society, in books that described his trespasses in lurid detail and shocked nearly as many millions as savored them...
...moment that I think conveys a lot.It was late one evening after a long day of work as the sun was setting behind the mangrove. People were filtering in from town to spend the evening with the Rodríguez brothers, and yet Don Ruben was still finishing up hammering a board into the exit of one of the shrimp ponds.Another man, Don Amadeus, had just come in, and though I don’t imagine anyone but Guatemalans could tell him apart from the rest, he was definitely of indigenous ancestry. Don Saúl and Don Celso were joking...
...choice to make Spain - and a Catholic family conference - his third foreign trip helps hammer home a point. On the papal plane Saturday morning, Benedict said he wanted to focus on the ?positive," but restated the Church's firm opposition to gay unions. "It is true that there are certain things that Christian life says no to. We want to make people understand that according to human nature, it is a man and a woman who are made for each other and made to give humanity a future," he said. Still, the Pope remains the underdog in this intellectual tete...