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Tiger Mann #2
Bloody Sunrise
He's a TIGER for trouble...the one MANN who can handle the dirtiest job ever handed out in the deadly world of ESPIONAGE.
He's TIGER MANN - Mickey Spillane's gutter-tough secret agent back in a real hell-raiser of a thriller.
He's TIGER MANN - Mickey Spillane's gutter-tough secret agent back in a real hell-raiser of a thriller.
157 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1965
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About the author
Mickey Spillane
316 books446 followersMickey Spillane was one of the world's most popular mystery writers. His specialty was tight-fisted, sadistic revenge stories, often featuring his alcoholic gumshoe Mike Hammer and a cast of evildoers who launder money or spout the Communist Party line.
His writing style was characterized by short words, lightning transitions, gruff sex and violent endings. It was once tallied that he offed 58 people in six novels.
Starting with "I, the Jury," in 1947, Mr. Spillane sold hundreds of millions of books during his lifetime and garnered consistently scathing reviews. Even his father, a Brooklyn bartender, called them "crud."
Mr. Spillane was a struggling comic book publisher when he wrote "I, the Jury." He initially envisioned it as a comic book called "Mike Danger," and when that did not go over, he took a week to reconfigure it as a novel.
Even the editor in chief of E.P. Dutton and Co., Mr. Spillane's publisher, was skeptical of the book's literary merit but conceded it would probably be a smash with postwar readers looking for ready action. He was right. The book, in which Hammer pursues a murderous narcotics ring led by a curvaceous female psychiatrist, went on to sell more than 1 million copies.
Mr. Spillane spun out six novels in the next five years, among them "My Gun Is Quick," "The Big Kill," "One Lonely Night" and "Kiss Me, Deadly." Most concerned Hammer, his faithful sidekick, Velda, and the police homicide captain Pat Chambers, who acknowledges that Hammer's style of vigilante justice is often better suited than the law to dispatching criminals.
Mr. Spillane's success rankled other critics, who sometimes became very personal in their reviews. Malcolm Cowley called Mr. Spillane "a homicidal paranoiac," going on to note what he called his misogyny and vigilante tendencies.
His books were translated into many languages, and he proved so popular as a writer that he was able to transfer his thick-necked, barrel-chested personality across many media. With the charisma of a redwood, he played Hammer in "The Girl Hunters," a 1963 film adaptation of his novel.
Spillane also scripted several television shows and films and played a detective in the 1954 suspense film "Ring of Fear," set at a Clyde Beatty circus. He rewrote much of the film, too, refusing payment. In gratitude, the producer, John Wayne, surprised him one morning with a white Jaguar sportster wrapped in a red ribbon. The card read, "Thanks, Duke."
Done initially on a dare from his publisher, Mr. Spillane wrote a children's book, "The Day the Sea Rolled Back" (1979), about two boys who find a shipwreck loaded with treasure. This won a Junior Literary Guild award.
He also wrote another children's novel, "The Ship That Never Was," and then wrote his first Mike Hammer mystery in 20 years with "The Killing Man" (1989). "Black Alley" followed in 1996. In the last, a rapidly aging Hammer comes out of a gunshot-induced coma, then tracks down a friend's murderer and billions in mob loot. For the first time, he also confesses his love for Velda but, because of doctor's orders, cannot consummate the relationship.
Late in life, he received a career achievement award from the Private Eye Writers of America and was named a grand master by the Mystery Writers of America.
In his private life, he neither smoked nor drank and was a house-to-house missionary for the Jehovah's Witnesses. He expressed at times great disdain for what he saw as corrosive forces in American life, from antiwar protesters to the United Nations.
His marriages to Mary Ann Pearce and Sherri Malinou ended in divorce. His second wife, a model, posed nude for the dust jacket of his 1972 novel "The Erection Set."
Survivors include his third wife, Jane Rodgers Johnson, a former beauty queen 30 years his junior; and four children from the first marriage.
He also carried on a long epistolary flirtation with Ayn Rand, an admirer of his writing.
His writing style was characterized by short words, lightning transitions, gruff sex and violent endings. It was once tallied that he offed 58 people in six novels.
Starting with "I, the Jury," in 1947, Mr. Spillane sold hundreds of millions of books during his lifetime and garnered consistently scathing reviews. Even his father, a Brooklyn bartender, called them "crud."
Mr. Spillane was a struggling comic book publisher when he wrote "I, the Jury." He initially envisioned it as a comic book called "Mike Danger," and when that did not go over, he took a week to reconfigure it as a novel.
Even the editor in chief of E.P. Dutton and Co., Mr. Spillane's publisher, was skeptical of the book's literary merit but conceded it would probably be a smash with postwar readers looking for ready action. He was right. The book, in which Hammer pursues a murderous narcotics ring led by a curvaceous female psychiatrist, went on to sell more than 1 million copies.
Mr. Spillane spun out six novels in the next five years, among them "My Gun Is Quick," "The Big Kill," "One Lonely Night" and "Kiss Me, Deadly." Most concerned Hammer, his faithful sidekick, Velda, and the police homicide captain Pat Chambers, who acknowledges that Hammer's style of vigilante justice is often better suited than the law to dispatching criminals.
Mr. Spillane's success rankled other critics, who sometimes became very personal in their reviews. Malcolm Cowley called Mr. Spillane "a homicidal paranoiac," going on to note what he called his misogyny and vigilante tendencies.
His books were translated into many languages, and he proved so popular as a writer that he was able to transfer his thick-necked, barrel-chested personality across many media. With the charisma of a redwood, he played Hammer in "The Girl Hunters," a 1963 film adaptation of his novel.
Spillane also scripted several television shows and films and played a detective in the 1954 suspense film "Ring of Fear," set at a Clyde Beatty circus. He rewrote much of the film, too, refusing payment. In gratitude, the producer, John Wayne, surprised him one morning with a white Jaguar sportster wrapped in a red ribbon. The card read, "Thanks, Duke."
Done initially on a dare from his publisher, Mr. Spillane wrote a children's book, "The Day the Sea Rolled Back" (1979), about two boys who find a shipwreck loaded with treasure. This won a Junior Literary Guild award.
He also wrote another children's novel, "The Ship That Never Was," and then wrote his first Mike Hammer mystery in 20 years with "The Killing Man" (1989). "Black Alley" followed in 1996. In the last, a rapidly aging Hammer comes out of a gunshot-induced coma, then tracks down a friend's murderer and billions in mob loot. For the first time, he also confesses his love for Velda but, because of doctor's orders, cannot consummate the relationship.
Late in life, he received a career achievement award from the Private Eye Writers of America and was named a grand master by the Mystery Writers of America.
In his private life, he neither smoked nor drank and was a house-to-house missionary for the Jehovah's Witnesses. He expressed at times great disdain for what he saw as corrosive forces in American life, from antiwar protesters to the United Nations.
His marriages to Mary Ann Pearce and Sherri Malinou ended in divorce. His second wife, a model, posed nude for the dust jacket of his 1972 novel "The Erection Set."
Survivors include his third wife, Jane Rodgers Johnson, a former beauty queen 30 years his junior; and four children from the first marriage.
He also carried on a long epistolary flirtation with Ayn Rand, an admirer of his writing.
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March 2, 2022
SO MANLY HE GETS 2 'N'S! HE'S THAT MUCH OF A MANN!
HE HATES THE SOVIETS!
HE LIKES THE LADIES!
PLUS HE'S FAITHFUL!
* except with his body
A MANN LIKE TIGER HAS AN APPETITE!
HE'LL LIE
HE'LL KILL
HE'LL BLOW SHIT UP
HE'LL BULLY AND THREATEN TWO OLD LADIES MANAGING A WOMAN'S SHELTER BECAUSE THE COLD WAR DOESN'T HAVE TIME FOR THEIR NOSEY NONSENSE AND THEIR UPTIGHT "NO MEN ALLOWED" SO-CALLED "RULES"! THOSE MAN-HATERS BEST GET OUT THE WAY!
BECAUSE... HE'LL... DO...
FOR AMERICA!
:O
This is a 2 star book: lightly enjoyable but forgettable. Pulp vibe was medium-strength and fun when present. I could have used more of that vibe. For example, I'd have liked a lot more of the very very memorable "poetic" writing as displayed in this wonderfully over-the-top love scene:
It was a beautiful sunrise, slow and easy at first, then with crashing suddenness the wild red and bright burst in upon both of us in a frenzy of delight, then diminished into the steadily increasing glow of morning.And that my friends is how a tiger with two backs is made.
Damn, how soft she was, how firm and round the fleshy curves and hollows. Right from the fierce steppes of a Caucasus mountain she brought every buck, every undulation into a living symphony of outlandish delight. Her mouth was a hot, wet thing of such demanding passion that it itself was a fuse that ignited one explosion after another. Her mouth melt against mine, a torch that could nearly scream unless it was choked off, her entire body an octopus of emotion that demanded and demanded and when it was satisfied for a short time was almost content in a relaxation close to death itself.
But I wouldn't give her that relaxation. She asked, now she got. She wanted to see what a tiger was like and now she had to find out. She knew the depth of the canines and the feeling of being absorbed because she was only a woman in the lust of a horrible hunger and in that frightening sunlight she knew for the first time what it was like to live as one.
November 25, 2024
Spillanes "Tiger Mann" Book 2.
This differs from his Mike Hammer books in that it isn't gumshoe detective based fiction, but a cold-war spy vs spy, where America must overcome the commies at all costs. Tiger Mann works for a private agency which, essentially, is prepared to do what the government agencies can't do. This involves wanton destruction and murder, torture, making deals and giving bribes.
Tiger Mann himself? 1960's testosterone overload, the man men want to be and women want to have - albeit probably for a short time, due to his unbearable ego!
For me, this was a step up from book one of the series. That one had a really obvious storyline, and some real obvious blind-spots in Tiger's thinking - too annoying. At least in this one he came across as slightly cleverer, although still flawed as some of his mistakes are explained in the closing pages. The ultimate conclusion was fairly obvious - but I will refrain from discussing, except to say the reveal had already taken place before the obvious bit, so it read much better than #1.
The story starts on Tiger's wedding day, and just as he was about to hand in his resignation, the agency needs him - its big, and (of course) nobody else can handle it. Tiger has to put off his big day, tell his fiancée, and run about saving the day. Russian assassins / spies, political fallout, Geiger counters, a guy he once saved from something or other gets in touch to discuss something fishy on the boat he works on (?? not the strongest storyline, right); sexy Russian defector, unsexy but knowledgeable Russian scientist defector, the unhappy FBI, the angry police, almost all of whom are out to get Tiger (in one way or another).
So, yes very sexist, very misogynistic, very 1960s. Certainly don't engage any belief sensors before reading, but a fun enough light read.
3 stars
This differs from his Mike Hammer books in that it isn't gumshoe detective based fiction, but a cold-war spy vs spy, where America must overcome the commies at all costs. Tiger Mann works for a private agency which, essentially, is prepared to do what the government agencies can't do. This involves wanton destruction and murder, torture, making deals and giving bribes.
Tiger Mann himself? 1960's testosterone overload, the man men want to be and women want to have - albeit probably for a short time, due to his unbearable ego!
For me, this was a step up from book one of the series. That one had a really obvious storyline, and some real obvious blind-spots in Tiger's thinking - too annoying. At least in this one he came across as slightly cleverer, although still flawed as some of his mistakes are explained in the closing pages. The ultimate conclusion was fairly obvious - but I will refrain from discussing, except to say the reveal had already taken place before the obvious bit, so it read much better than #1.
The story starts on Tiger's wedding day, and just as he was about to hand in his resignation, the agency needs him - its big, and (of course) nobody else can handle it. Tiger has to put off his big day, tell his fiancée, and run about saving the day. Russian assassins / spies, political fallout, Geiger counters, a guy he once saved from something or other gets in touch to discuss something fishy on the boat he works on (?? not the strongest storyline, right); sexy Russian defector, unsexy but knowledgeable Russian scientist defector, the unhappy FBI, the angry police, almost all of whom are out to get Tiger (in one way or another).
So, yes very sexist, very misogynistic, very 1960s. Certainly don't engage any belief sensors before reading, but a fun enough light read.
3 stars
May 25, 2025
Spillane must have had in mind the idea of the solo private eye like Hammer out to do justice, but working outside and often in tandem with the official law enforcement world, when he invented Tiger Mann, an espionage agent for a private organization that got things done official Washington couldn’t. Tiger explains: “When Martin Grady had set up an extralegal organization, it was out of sheer patriotism and total disgust with the way authorized agencies were forced to operate, hampered by political indecision, individual greed and absolute stupidity. We were the biggest and the best, and if somebody didn’t do something to keep it that way the United States would find itself bitten and chewed to pieces by the heavy-handed slobs on the other side of the fence.” Thus, we get Tiger working to save the Free World from the nefarious Soviets but not officially sanctioned to do so and being officially accused of murders and kidnappings, broadcast on the front pages.
In only the second book in the series, though, Tiger wants to get married and retire, knowing the kind of life he lives does not pair well with women’s idea of marriage. In fact, as the story opens, it’s his wedding day. He tells us: “It was Saturday and I was going to be married. But it was dawn and too early, yet I couldn’t sleep thinking of what was going to happen later and that twenty blocks farther uptown Rondine would be curled up in a bed, naked and inviting, still asleep, and in a little while there never would be a city mile between us again.” And now: “The day of the guns was past. The Soviets could take me off their ‘A’ list and any future targets Grady had planned for me could breathe a little easier because whoever came at them wouldn’t be quite as good, nor as fast or even enjoy the work as much as I had.”
Tiger is set to marry “Rondine,” but it’s not the real Rondine. It’s her kid sister: “But she wasn’t Rondine. She was Edith Caine and Rondine was a long time dead, her elder sister who looked exactly like her twenty years ago. The war years, I thought, wild, incredible years that seem almost unreal now. The first Rondine had twisted her thinking until she walked out of the Caine household and into the Nazi camp as an espionage agent to fight her own kind. And I was the OSS agent who had tracked her down in occupied France to kill her…and wound up in love instead. That was…until she put two slugs in me to save her own hide and left me to die. I carried a big hate inside me after that.”
All that is, however, just the background to “Bloody Sunrise,” which has Tiger responding to an emergency call on the day of his wedding. A Soviet defector, Martel, is ready to spill the beans, but he is waiting to be reunited with his girlfriend, also a defector, and Soviet hit squads are running loose with orders to take both off the board. Sonia Dutko had been a ski instructor for the Soviet team and dropped out of sight during the Olympics. “She seemed to have ash blonde hair that fell gracefully around a smiling, country-fresh face, and she was built like the proverbial brick outhouse. Even through the heavy European clothes, you couldn’t miss the proud look of a body in perfect physical condition, breast high and firm, legs whose curves showed a musculature an artist could hardly duplicate.”
Tiger, who is more like Rambo than James Bond, has his hands full protecting both Soviets and, as far as the press was concerned, kidnapping them from government custody to keep them safe. He has “Rondine” set Sonia up in a hideaway with Rondine’s clothing right down to see-through nighties and, despite it being the supposed-day of his wedding, lets Sonia seduce him in the line of duty.
Most of the story is Tiger blasting his way this way and that as Soviet agents seem to magically pop out if the woods. Even Rondine has to be rescued even though Tiger claims country comes first. There is a nuclear device that almost goes off, but that is almost an insignificant detail in this story.
In only the second book in the series, though, Tiger wants to get married and retire, knowing the kind of life he lives does not pair well with women’s idea of marriage. In fact, as the story opens, it’s his wedding day. He tells us: “It was Saturday and I was going to be married. But it was dawn and too early, yet I couldn’t sleep thinking of what was going to happen later and that twenty blocks farther uptown Rondine would be curled up in a bed, naked and inviting, still asleep, and in a little while there never would be a city mile between us again.” And now: “The day of the guns was past. The Soviets could take me off their ‘A’ list and any future targets Grady had planned for me could breathe a little easier because whoever came at them wouldn’t be quite as good, nor as fast or even enjoy the work as much as I had.”
Tiger is set to marry “Rondine,” but it’s not the real Rondine. It’s her kid sister: “But she wasn’t Rondine. She was Edith Caine and Rondine was a long time dead, her elder sister who looked exactly like her twenty years ago. The war years, I thought, wild, incredible years that seem almost unreal now. The first Rondine had twisted her thinking until she walked out of the Caine household and into the Nazi camp as an espionage agent to fight her own kind. And I was the OSS agent who had tracked her down in occupied France to kill her…and wound up in love instead. That was…until she put two slugs in me to save her own hide and left me to die. I carried a big hate inside me after that.”
All that is, however, just the background to “Bloody Sunrise,” which has Tiger responding to an emergency call on the day of his wedding. A Soviet defector, Martel, is ready to spill the beans, but he is waiting to be reunited with his girlfriend, also a defector, and Soviet hit squads are running loose with orders to take both off the board. Sonia Dutko had been a ski instructor for the Soviet team and dropped out of sight during the Olympics. “She seemed to have ash blonde hair that fell gracefully around a smiling, country-fresh face, and she was built like the proverbial brick outhouse. Even through the heavy European clothes, you couldn’t miss the proud look of a body in perfect physical condition, breast high and firm, legs whose curves showed a musculature an artist could hardly duplicate.”
Tiger, who is more like Rambo than James Bond, has his hands full protecting both Soviets and, as far as the press was concerned, kidnapping them from government custody to keep them safe. He has “Rondine” set Sonia up in a hideaway with Rondine’s clothing right down to see-through nighties and, despite it being the supposed-day of his wedding, lets Sonia seduce him in the line of duty.
Most of the story is Tiger blasting his way this way and that as Soviet agents seem to magically pop out if the woods. Even Rondine has to be rescued even though Tiger claims country comes first. There is a nuclear device that almost goes off, but that is almost an insignificant detail in this story.
July 14, 2019
"Επιχείρηση Πλάτων", εκδόσεις ΒΙΠΕΡ.
Βαθμολογία: 7/10
Αυτό είναι το πέμπτο βιβλίο του Μίκι Σπιλέιν που διαβάζω, δυόμιση και πλέον χρόνια από την τελευταία φορά που διάβασα κάτι δικό του. Αυτό είναι και το δεύτερο βιβλίο στο οποίο εμφανίζεται ο μπρουτάλ Αμερικανός μυστικός πράκτορας Τάιγκερ Μαν (ναι, έτσι τον λένε τον άνθρωπο!). Οπωσδήποτε το ευχαριστήθηκα, αλλά είναι για συγκεκριμένα γούστα και, φυσικά, προϊόν της εποχής και της σχολής του. Και όταν λέω προϊόν της εποχής και της σχολής του, εννοώ τη δεκαετία του '60 στο Αμέρικα, με την παντελή έλλειψη πολιτικής ορθότητας, αλλά και έναν κάποιο σεξισμό. Όπως και να΄χει, η όλη ιστορία κινείται με ιλιγγιώδεις ρυθμούς, το ένα γεγονός διαδέχεται το άλλο, χωρίς να παίρνει ανάσα ούτε ο πρωταγωνιστής, αλλά ούτε και ο αναγνώστης, ενώ υπάρχει και μια έκπληξη στο τέλος (τίποτα το εντυπωσιακό, όμως). Φυσικά οι χαρακτήρες είναι μονοδιάστατοι, μιας και ο συγγραφέας δεν μπαίνει στον κόπο να τους προσδώσει λίγο βάθος ή έστω αληθοφάνεια, όμως σε τέτοιου είδους μυθιστορήματα δεν έχει και ιδιαίτερη σημασία. Η γραφή είναι "σκληρή" και άκρως ευκολοδιάβαστη, με λιτές περιγραφές σκηνικών και καταστάσεων. Αυτά τα σκληροτράχηλα παλμ μυθιστορήματα (αστυνομικά, κατασκοπευτικά, δράσης κλπ) τα διαβάζει κανείς για να ανάψουν λίγο τα αίματα, να ανέβουν λίγο οι σφυγμοί, γενικά να περάσει ψυχαγωγικά την ώρα του, όχι για να ανακαλύψει το νόημα της ζωής. Θα μπορούσα να του βάλω ακόμα και τέσσερα αστεράκια, αλλά μάλλον θα αδικούσα πολλά άλλα βιβλία.
Βαθμολογία: 7/10
Αυτό είναι το πέμπτο βιβλίο του Μίκι Σπιλέιν που διαβάζω, δυόμιση και πλέον χρόνια από την τελευταία φορά που διάβασα κάτι δικό του. Αυτό είναι και το δεύτερο βιβλίο στο οποίο εμφανίζεται ο μπρουτάλ Αμερικανός μυστικός πράκτορας Τάιγκερ Μαν (ναι, έτσι τον λένε τον άνθρωπο!). Οπωσδήποτε το ευχαριστήθηκα, αλλά είναι για συγκεκριμένα γούστα και, φυσικά, προϊόν της εποχής και της σχολής του. Και όταν λέω προϊόν της εποχής και της σχολής του, εννοώ τη δεκαετία του '60 στο Αμέρικα, με την παντελή έλλειψη πολιτικής ορθότητας, αλλά και έναν κάποιο σεξισμό. Όπως και να΄χει, η όλη ιστορία κινείται με ιλιγγιώδεις ρυθμούς, το ένα γεγονός διαδέχεται το άλλο, χωρίς να παίρνει ανάσα ούτε ο πρωταγωνιστής, αλλά ούτε και ο αναγνώστης, ενώ υπάρχει και μια έκπληξη στο τέλος (τίποτα το εντυπωσιακό, όμως). Φυσικά οι χαρακτήρες είναι μονοδιάστατοι, μιας και ο συγγραφέας δεν μπαίνει στον κόπο να τους προσδώσει λίγο βάθος ή έστω αληθοφάνεια, όμως σε τέτοιου είδους μυθιστορήματα δεν έχει και ιδιαίτερη σημασία. Η γραφή είναι "σκληρή" και άκρως ευκολοδιάβαστη, με λιτές περιγραφές σκηνικών και καταστάσεων. Αυτά τα σκληροτράχηλα παλμ μυθιστορήματα (αστυνομικά, κατασκοπευτικά, δράσης κλπ) τα διαβάζει κανείς για να ανάψουν λίγο τα αίματα, να ανέβουν λίγο οι σφυγμοί, γενικά να περάσει ψυχαγωγικά την ώρα του, όχι για να ανακαλύψει το νόημα της ζωής. Θα μπορούσα να του βάλω ακόμα και τέσσερα αστεράκια, αλλά μάλλον θα αδικούσα πολλά άλλα βιβλία.
September 7, 2012
Ok, you have to rate this knowing what it is. Mickey Spillane should not be a surprise and that his characters are uber-male (and the women uber-female from a man's point of view) is how it is. It's direct and no soul-searching or self-actualization gets in the way of the contrived plot. Having said that, note I still gave it 4 stars. It's a quick, fun trip not to be taken seriously. Not recommended for women unless they can find the humor in laughing at warped, old-timey men's fantasies.
September 30, 2017
You can't discuss this book without addressing the sexism of the time. The main character - Tiger Mann - is a 60's idea of a man's man, sexist and borderline misogynist by today's standards. The women are cardboard cutouts, mostly there for Mann's entertainment.
That being said, it's a ripping Cold War spy vs. spy tale, a fun read if you can accept it for what it is. Well-written, lots of action, red herrings and plenty of skin, of course. A well-earned four-stars.
That being said, it's a ripping Cold War spy vs. spy tale, a fun read if you can accept it for what it is. Well-written, lots of action, red herrings and plenty of skin, of course. A well-earned four-stars.
August 1, 2025
Avventuroso. Violento. Avvincente.
August 4, 2015
#2 in the Tiger Mann series.
Secret agent Tiger Mann has his wedding interrupted by a call to look into the defection of a top Russian spy, Gabin Martrel, who has requested asylum but won't provide any information. Tiger figures that he has defected to find and old flame, and if he finds her, Martrel will talk. Violence abounds and there is a nuclear threat to add flavor.
Secret agent Tiger Mann has his wedding interrupted by a call to look into the defection of a top Russian spy, Gabin Martrel, who has requested asylum but won't provide any information. Tiger figures that he has defected to find and old flame, and if he finds her, Martrel will talk. Violence abounds and there is a nuclear threat to add flavor.
October 28, 2017
Yes! I love these books! Tiger Mann kicks butt so much. I mean, Mike Hammer is cool and everything, but Tiger... He takes care of business.
December 23, 2022
Una insulsa novela policíaca para hacer propaganda estadounidense en medio de la guerra fría, con un protagonista que puede esquivar balas de los soviets, o al menos moverse justo en el momento anterior al disparo del enemigo.
December 23, 2024
A thriller indeed, all 157 pages! This is (I think) the first Mickey Spillane that I’ve read, I truly enjoyed it!
July 26, 2025
It's easy to read, the turmoil of a james-bondy spy who has to cancel his wedding in order to defeat an evil organization
August 17, 2023
Ottimo Spillane, che riprende in mano il personaggio di Tiger Mann, un agente segreto del controspionaggio, spietato e pronto a tutto. Nella cornice di una New York nel pieno della Guerra Fredda, USA e URSS si combattono a colpi di agenti segreti, bombe e killer spietati. E in mezzo a tutto c'è Tiger Mann, inviso anche ai corpi speciali governativi americani. Solo contro tutti e strappato a forza alla prospettiva di una nuova vita lontana da intrighi e assassini, Tiger farà di tutto per rimanere in vita e sgominare un grande complotto internazionale.
La penna di Spillane è sempre molto incisiva, anche se qui è concentrata esclusivamente sull'azione, a discapito del lirismo che tanto caratterizza la sua creatura più famosa, Mike Hammer. Tiger Mann è un duro inarrestabile, ma non ha sul lettore lo stesso impatto di Mike Hammer; tanto è vero che la serie di Tiger Mann si consuma in soli 4 romanzi.
La penna di Spillane è sempre molto incisiva, anche se qui è concentrata esclusivamente sull'azione, a discapito del lirismo che tanto caratterizza la sua creatura più famosa, Mike Hammer. Tiger Mann è un duro inarrestabile, ma non ha sul lettore lo stesso impatto di Mike Hammer; tanto è vero che la serie di Tiger Mann si consuma in soli 4 romanzi.
July 5, 2012
A fascinating insight into SO19 and the UK security forces, some of it seemed a little far fetched but maybe that is the way it really is!
But whatever I enjoyed the book and read it from cover to cover in three days.
But whatever I enjoyed the book and read it from cover to cover in three days.
March 3, 2023
Another typical Mickey Spillane tough guy story but I think I prefer the Mike Hammer character better.
3/3/23 Just finish reading this a second time and I'll echo both my comment and my 4 star rating. A good story, typical Mickey Spuillane writing, good action, good wrap up.
3/3/23 Just finish reading this a second time and I'll echo both my comment and my 4 star rating. A good story, typical Mickey Spuillane writing, good action, good wrap up.
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April 9, 2019Synopsis: a Russian agent has defected. The about-to-be-married Tiger Mann gets the call to investigate and determine why.
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