MURDER NEVER KNOCKS
By Mickey Spillane & Max Allan
Collins
Titan Books
249 pages
All Mike Hammer mysteries contain a
fair amount of action, gun battles and bloodshed but at the moment we’re having
a really hard time thinking of another one that comes this saturated with
violence. From the first page, wherein Hammer is confronted in his own offices
by a hired killer, this story roars out of the chute like a crazed bull at a
western rodeo; stomping down anyone unlucky enough to be caught in its path of
destruction.
Someone has put out a contract on
Hammer and with each new chapter bodies drop; some belonging to ruthless
assassins, others innocent bystanders trapped in the deadly crossfire. The
puzzle has the savvy private eye doing his best to decipher who put the target
on his back at the same as he’s dodging bullets. By the time three different hitmen
have tried to collect and failed, Hammer has to face the truth that he is being
stalked by a cunning, merciless psychopath unlike any killer he has ever encountered
before. How does he fight a madman whose very reasons for wanting him dead make
absolutely no sense at all?
“Murder Never Knocks,” is taut,
unrelenting thriller and never lets up on its own inherent suspense. It’s a
pure Spillane and Collins cocktail, one that goes down smooth and then leaves
your guts on fire.
2 comments:
Kindle order placed.
There's more violence in One Lonely Night, I think, I mean, Hammer doesn't use a Tommy gun to saw somebody's arm off, but this one is quite good.
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