One Lonely Night
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First British ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacket
In the rain-soaked, morally ambiguous streets of post-war New York, Mike Hammer — Mickey Spillane's iron-fisted private detective — is handed a mission that blurs the line between justice and vengeance: hunt down and destroy a Communist spy ring that has infiltrated the very heart of American society. One Lonely Night, first published in 1951, is a relentless, hard-boiled thriller that thrusts Hammer into a shadowy world of espionage, murder, and ideological warfare, fuelled by a judge's damning verdict that Hammer is no better than the killers he pursues — a charge the detective sets out to disprove with characteristic brutality. Spillane's prose is stripped raw, punchy, and deliberately provocative, reflecting the paranoid Cold War anxieties of its era while delivering the visceral, unapologetic action that made Hammer one of crime fiction's most iconic and controversial protagonists. Beneath its pulpy exterior, the novel interrogates the cost of vigilante justice and the psychological toll of a man who operates outside the law's boundaries. Whether Hammer is hero or monster is a question Spillane leaves dangerously, thrillingly unresolved.
Author: Mickey Spillane
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952, Arthur Barker Limited
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First British ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacket
In the rain-soaked, morally ambiguous streets of post-war New York, Mike Hammer — Mickey Spillane's iron-fisted private detective — is handed a mission that blurs the line between justice and vengeance: hunt down and destroy a Communist spy ring that has infiltrated the very heart of American society. One Lonely Night, first published in 1951, is a relentless, hard-boiled thriller that thrusts Hammer into a shadowy world of espionage, murder, and ideological warfare, fuelled by a judge's damning verdict that Hammer is no better than the killers he pursues — a charge the detective sets out to disprove with characteristic brutality. Spillane's prose is stripped raw, punchy, and deliberately provocative, reflecting the paranoid Cold War anxieties of its era while delivering the visceral, unapologetic action that made Hammer one of crime fiction's most iconic and controversial protagonists. Beneath its pulpy exterior, the novel interrogates the cost of vigilante justice and the psychological toll of a man who operates outside the law's boundaries. Whether Hammer is hero or monster is a question Spillane leaves dangerously, thrillingly unresolved.