My Gun Is Quick [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Mickey Spillane (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 353 pages
• Publisher: John Curley & Associates (January 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 079271296X
• ISBN-13: 978-0792712961
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,327,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) sold hundreds of millions of books. He introduced iconic detective Mike Hammer to readers in 1947 with I, THE JURY, and was named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master in 1995.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I disagree 100% with the other review posted here., August 25, 2000

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Bryan D White (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Gun Is Quick: A Mike Hammer Novel (Hardcover)

Look, Spillane is just not for everyone. In the particular subgenre of detective fiction that is Hardboiled, though, Nobody even comes close to Spillane in terms of white knuckle, jaw grating brutality and suspense. With the exception of his books from the '70s (can't remember the titles at the moment, but they're more scattered and almost pornographically sexual in parts), I have never picked up a Spillane book that I could put down until the gut-punching end.

I have to wonder if the other reviewer here even likes anything from this genre at all? Jim Thompson, for instance?

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A half-century's perspective, August 17, 2006

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Roger Long "longrush" (Port Clinton, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Gun Is Quick (Paperback)

After a hiatus of 50 years, I read this hardboiled novel again. I was in high school the first time and very taken by the tough-guy attitude and Mike Hammer's ease with willing women. I had neither and still don't, I'll add as an aside. The book still works for me, but for somewhat different reasons. Nickel calls, "rods," cheap subway fares, etc. date it but delightfully so. After all, 1950 (when this was published) was in a vastly different world from today.

The plot doesn't really matter much. We see Mike Hammer get beaten severely of an evening, never hospitalized, and fully recovered apparently by morning. So what? That's part of the theme in Spillane. The dark, wet streets of Manhattan are a perfect setting, a sort of film noir on paper. The characters are comic book cutouts, hookers with good hearts, twisted bad dudes, tough-minded and tough-muscled good guys. The dialogue is almost funny sometimes, especially in the last chapter with Hammer laying it all out for the lord-high evil doer. And we don't get the denouement until the last page. Mickey Spillane doesn't waste time with cool downs.

I give this one five stars for nostalgia if for nothing else.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Loved this book!, June 19, 2001

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"jaceygale" (Hampton, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Gun Is Quick: A Mike Hammer Novel (Hardcover)

This book was exciting, moved fast, and Spillane's character, Mike Hammer, as always, was in top form. Spillane's stories are always suspenseful and exciting.