Without reaching the gore, Mickey spillane focused on a variant of the noir genre that was not fussy when it came to presenting scenes, let's say drastic.
Justice, if in addition to being blind, could be messed around, left and right, it could become a more satisfactory justice. But even then she would not escape ending up being a bad sketch of herself. Human beings are capable of corrupting everything and with strength and power united as the only justice, everything would justify the means.
The above is homegrown on the ideology that emerges from this author. And it is that the idea of this hard-boiled subgenre, which came to curl the curl of the crime novel, haunts this approach of everything for justice but without justice if necessary.
What is clear is that the human being, devoid of civic filters, can do everything and justify everything. Contradictory nature and need for survival ...
Under these premises you can begin to read Spillane quite predisposed to find everything. Of course, knowing that it is not a minority taste at all. Spillane was one of the big bestsellers and undoubtedly a forerunner of the current crime novel. Come on, quite a mirror for a little Tarantino who could easily have read this author.
3 Recommended Mickey Spillane Novels
I, the jury
The one about Hammer as the protagonist's last name already announces, in some way, that touch of violence that awaits us. Sometimes I think that Spillane is responsible for focusing that boredom, that hatred for a slow, ineffective, guaranteeing justice (when you are the victim, the guarantees do not quite convince you). So it is easier to understand that reading relish of so many followers.
Summary: Mike Hammer is a tough guy who, above all, defends order. He is a private detective because police officers have to abide by rules and cannot be forceful enough in interrogations. Furthermore, they have to leave the defendants at the mercy of the jurors, who are easily fooled by skilled lawyers.
But Mike Hammer won't be fooled. They have killed his best friend and the murderer continues to litter the city with corpses. He, Mike Hammer, has to get ahead of the police and become judge, jury and executioner of the criminal.
My gun is fast
One of Spillane's first novels. Recovered for the cause of the enjoyment of those dissatisfied with royal justice. Hammer dons his losers hero outfit again and faces a lost cause that may end himself.
Summary: One night Detective Mike Hammer makes a stop at a bar. There he meets a provocative redhead, lonely, without much clientele or luck in life. The two engage in a friendly conversation that ends with a comment from the detective to the young woman: everything would be better for her if she changed jobs.
However, she barely has time to follow his advice because the next day she is hit by a hit-and-run car. Although the police believe it is a simple traffic accident, Mike Hammer suspects that something is wrong. The desire to make sense of the young woman's death leads him to plunge little by little into a sordid and violent world.
Killer of mine
A city of the seventies or eighties transformed into an old western town. Pistols become the law and survival is achieved by always being the fastest… and the one who sleeps the least.
Summary: A smart guy was increasing the death rate in the underworld with a special .38 caliber. Police Lieutenant Joe Scanlon then dedicates himself to carrying out an intense search along the dark and deadly alleys of the shanty jungle that surrounds the city... his cover, a beautiful policewoman who will offer herself as sexual bait... his target, a one-shot assassin who is eliminating the rest of the assassins.
