1. Typed Manuscript with Annotations, 219 pp, 4to, [New York], May 8, 1964, being a double-spaced draft of Day of the Guns, additionally annotated by at least two Dutton editors, stamped “Copy for the Press” to title-page, leaves heavily thumbed and soiled, some creasing to corners. 2. Galley proof, 61 sheets, n.d., sheets creased, toning, chipping and loss. 3. Page proofs, 59 sheets, dated in manuscript August 3, 1964, sheets creased, toning and chipping with some loss. When Spillane returned to novel writing in the early 1960s, it was apparent that he had lost some ground to Ian Fleming and other writers of spy thrillers. Spillane responded by creating his own Cold War series starring superspy Tiger Mann, a tough gun working for an espionage agency funded by the radical right-wing billionaire Martin Grady. Mann and Grady dedicate their lives to preserving liberty and the free enterprise system. Stylistically the Tiger Mann series had much in common with the Mike Hammer novels: same first person narration, same rat-a-tat prose, same emphasis on sex and violence. Day of the Guns opens in New York as Tiger recognizes his former lover, a Nazi spy who left him for dead twenty years ago. The woman leads Mann on a chase through the sordid underworld of Russian spies and Nazi war criminals before meeting that fate that most beautiful women do in Spillane novels.
1. Typed Manuscript with Annotations, 219 pp, 4to, [New York], May 8, 1964, being a double-spaced draft of Day of the Guns, additionally annotated by at least two Dutton editors, stamped “Copy for the Press” to title-page, leaves heavily thumbed and soiled, some creasing to corners. 2. Galley proof, 61 sheets, n.d., sheets creased, toning, chipping and loss. 3. Page proofs, 59 sheets, dated in manuscript August 3, 1964, sheets creased, toning and chipping with some loss. When Spillane returned to novel writing in the early 1960s, it was apparent that he had lost some ground to Ian Fleming and other writers of spy thrillers. Spillane responded by creating his own Cold War series starring superspy Tiger Mann, a tough gun working for an espionage agency funded by the radical right-wing billionaire Martin Grady. Mann and Grady dedicate their lives to preserving liberty and the free enterprise system. Stylistically the Tiger Mann series had much in common with the Mike Hammer novels: same first person narration, same rat-a-tat prose, same emphasis on sex and violence. Day of the Guns opens in New York as Tiger recognizes his former lover, a Nazi spy who left him for dead twenty years ago. The woman leads Mann on a chase through the sordid underworld of Russian spies and Nazi war criminals before meeting that fate that most beautiful women do in Spillane novels.
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