KA-POW!
Time for another week of paperbacks methinks, and this eye-catching little number seems as good a place to start as any.
Corgi Mickey Spillane books are ten-a-penny in British second hand shops, but sadly most of them seem to feature pretty drab/ugly (IMHO) cover designs.
Clearly that message didn’t get through to the (uncredited) bad mo-fos who put this master-class in pop art pulp dynamite together though – truly a cover that does justice (of a fittingly unsubtle variety) to the man who brought us “Me, Hood!” and “My Gun Is Quick”.
I’ve never read any of Mickey Spillane’s spy books, but if they’re as dunderheaded and brutal as his Mike Hammer stuff then I’m in for a good time. Here’s hoping ‘Tiger Mann’ does business by waiting for his secretary to point him in the general direction of East Germany then blundering in and shooting and bludgeoning as many commies as he can until someone saps him on the back of the head.
I may have spoiled the ending for myself, but... Final Paragraph Of The Gods:
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The pop=art covers you could create fore a book called 'The Twisted Thing'...
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