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SynopsisA triple-shot anthology featuring the first three Mike Hammer novels--from the undisputed master of detective fiction. In Mickey Spillane's classic detective novels, the action exploded in a bone-crunching catharsis. Men and women didn't make love, they collided. Tough brutes used their fists to drive home a message. Tougher broads used guile. And no one's morals were loftier than the gutter. No apologies. Little redemption. They rendered critics powerless, shocked intellectuals, inspired a new wave of pulp mayhem, and left the public hungry for more. Given their hot, fever-pitch prose and breathless pacing, Spillane's Mike Hammer novels quickly became one of the most successful series in publishing history--an innovative, no-holds-barred, ultravisceral explosion of sex and violence that made Hammer a literary legend, and Spillane, one of the bestselling authors of all time. After fifty years, neither has lost their power to sucker punch the reader. Find out for yourself in this omnibus featuring the first three Mike Hammer novels by the living master of the hard-boiled mystery... Includes: I, the Jury My Gun is Quick Vengeance is Mine, From the undisputed master of detective fiction, this triple-shot anthology features the first three Mike Hammer novels: I, the Jury My Gun is Quick Vengeance is Mine! In Mickey Spillane's classic detective novels, the action exploded in a bone-crunching catharsis. Men and women didn't make love, they collided. Tough brutes used their fists to drive home a message. Tougher broads used guile. And no one's morals were loftier than the gutter. No apologies. Little redemption. They rendered critics powerless, shocked intellectuals, inspired a new wave of pulp mayhem, and left the public hungry for more. Given their hot, fever-pitch prose and breathless pacing, Spillane's Mike Hammer novels quickly became one of the most successful series in publishing history--an innovative, no-holds-barred, ultravisceral explosion of sex and violence that made Hammer a literary legend, and Spillane, one of the bestselling authors of all time. After fifty years, neither has lost their power to sucker punch the reader. Find out for yourself in this omnibus featuring the first three Mike Hammer novels by the living master of the hard-boiled mystery..., Introduction by Max Allan Collins A triple shot-collection from the undisputed master of detective fiction that brings back for your delection the first three novels featuring the legendary detective Mike Hammer - the no-holds-barred private detective who became homicide's hottest anti-hero. These novels rendered critics powerless, shocked intellectuals, inspired a new wave of pulp mayhem, and left the public hungry for more. One of the most successful series in publishing history rides again and it still has the power to deliver a knockout punch., Introduction by Max Allan Collins,A triple shot-collection from the undisputed,master of detective fiction that brings back for,your delection the first three novels featuring,the legendary detective Mike Hammer - the,no-holds-barred private detective who became,homicide's hottest anti-hero. These novels,rendered critics powerless, shocked intellectuals,inspired a new wave of pulp mayhem, and left the,public hungry for more. One of the most successful,series in publishing history rides again and it,still has the power to deliver a knockout punch.