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USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
By Carol Memmott, USA TODAYJust before his death two years ago, crime writer Mickey Spillane called friend and author Max Allan Collins and asked him to finish a Mike Hammer novel he did not have the strength to complete.The Goliath Bone (Harcourt, $23), based on Spillane's rough draft, goes on sale Monday, 61 years after Hammer, the iconic hard-boiled private eye, solved his first...
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Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
This column closes out all the Mickey Spillane I own that was still unread, so here are four books, including ones that feature characters other than Mike Hammer or Tiger Mann, although those guys’ shadows still weigh heavily on all of Spillane’s creations. THE ERECTION SET by Mickey Spillane — Let’s tackle the important issue of [...]
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Murderati (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
... Walter Mosely's Easy Rawlins is a WWII vet, as is Stephen Hunter's Earl Swagger and Spillane's Mike Hammer. Even Lindsey Davis' Falco is an ex-legionary, while Brother Cadfael served in the First Crusade. I could go on, but you get the point. So why are so many crime fiction protagonists ex-military? Well, for one thing, it already gives them a certain amount of built-in bad-ass cred....
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StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
... older hunters must be within an arm's reach of their protégés."The main risk I see," said Capt. Mike Hammer, hunter education coordinator for Department of Natural Resources, "is that for many young kids, the frame of reference for firearms is toy guns, not real guns. And kids playing with toy guns don't care what they point them at. Many don't know the concepts of muzzle control,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
... did two tours with the Bob Hope Christmas show in Vietnam. Lindsay Bloom
TV Credits include Mike Hammer, Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas, Vegas, Emergency,
and Starsky and Hutch.
They were re-united after 35 years at the National Convention of the
Vietnam Veterans of America and had so much fun they are now touring as "Blue
Eyed Soul" and doing free concerts for Veterans. They are expected...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
... did two tours with the Bob Hope Christmas show in Vietnam. Lindsay Bloom
TV Credits include Mike Hammer, Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas, Vegas, Emergency,
and Starsky and Hutch.
They were re-united after 35 years at the National Convention of the
Vietnam Veterans of America and had so much fun they are now touring as "Blue
Eyed Soul" and doing free concerts for Veterans. They are expected...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
... also did two tours with the Bob Hope Christmas show in Vietnam. Lindsay
Bloom TV Credits include Mike Hammer, Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas, Vegas,
Emergency, and Starsky and Hutch.
They were re-united after 35 years at the National Convention of the
Vietnam Veterans of America and had so much fun they are now touring as
"Blue Eyed Soul" and doing free concerts for Veterans. They are...
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Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
If THE GOLIATH BONE proves to be the final outing for Mike Hammer (at least chronologically), then at least the iconic private investigator goes out with the proverbial bang. This one — the 14th for Hammer — finds Mickey Spillane’s hero still hard-boiled, even if his body’s going a little soft. He’s thinking about retirement, [...]
