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Title: Something's Down There : A Novel by Mickey Spillane ISBN: 0-7432-5146-6 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: THIS IS NOT MIKE HAMMER'S MICKEY SPILLANE
Comment: Unfortunately,this is not a good book. For those of us who are long time Mickey Spillane fans, it is a major disappointmnet. That hard, crudely eloquent writing is missing. The tough guy main character is not an angry, slow moving guided missile, seeking his target and smacking down anyone who gets in his way.
The tough guy in this book spends all his time drinking beer and dropping hints that he used to be a vengeful guided missile. The story is flat. The pacing is slow. The characters are just not very interesting. Spillane has a new Mike Hammer novel coming out in the summer of '04. Let's hope he is back to his old form for that one. He missed badly with "Something's Down There."
Rating: 3
Summary: Big Fish Story from Big Hardboiled Fish Spillane
Comment: So Mickey Spillane wants to shoulder Mike Hammer's favorite pistol for a book and bring us a big fish story (of sorts). Fine. SOMETHING'S DOWN THERE isn't exactly the page-turner we're used to when it comes to the hardboiled thrillers Spillane is so clever at concocting, but it's not a dud, either. Not by a stretch. In fact, I'd say there were intimations of this novel - its pacing, its location, its more sedate and world-weary hero - in the last Hammer novel, BLACK ALLEY. Consider Mako Hooker a distant (and I mean distant, but nevertheless related) cousin to the Mike Hammer we encountered at the beginning and end of BLACK ALLEY: tired, nursing recent wounds and (by the end of the book) fresh ones. Hooker is the 21st century remnant of the gritty tough guy that served as central character in Spillane's earlier work. That said, I certainly hope we see Spillane resurrect the more visceral tough-as-steel Mike Hammer in the forthcoming novel (Summer 2004).
As for the plot and pacing of SOMETHING'S DOWN THERE, there's a stab at local color here that's a far cry from the dark, cold and rainy New York City that provides the backdrop of the Mike Hammer stories. This time Spillane paints a quiet seagoing life off a small island in the Caribbean. The general laid-back environment and day-to-day routines are disrupted when something starts sinking fishing ships - enough of them to pique the interest of the Company. But Company-agent Mako Hooker is no Tiger Mann (remember him?) and the twists and turns this leisurely paced book takes are not the twists and turns of Spillane's best mysteries.
If you're a Spillane fan, though, SOMETHING'S DOWN THERE is a must-read. There are enough echoes of the hardboiled Spillane here to make you nod your head nostalgically and agitate your anticipation for the forthcoming new Hammer novel.
Rating: 4
Summary: A superior effort from an acknowledged master.
Comment: After leaving "the Company," Mako Hooker retired to the remote Caribbean island of Peolle, where he spends his days fishing aboard his boat, the Clamdip. His brief idyll ends when something starts attacking and sinking boats in the region, part of the mysterious Bermuda Triangle. The locals blame a sea creature, dubbing it "the Eater." Although Mako's seen the damage wreaked first hand, he hasn't come to any conclusion regarding the attacks.
The attacks draw the attention of the Company, and, before you can say "intrigue", Hooker is once again forced to rely on skills and instincts he happily suppressed upon retiring from the spy game. Trying to uncover the source of the mayhem, his investigations are complicated by the presence of aggressive Company operatives, an opportunistic Hollywood film crew, and a budding romance with a sultry heiress.
A successful author for over half a century now, Spillane still knows how to grab and hold a reader's attention--at eighty-five, his story telling skills remain undiminished. Sure, a few anachronisms creep in, and Mako is little more than a Mike Hammer/Tiger Mann hybrid, but those quibbles are easily ignored considering the story's brisk pacing, non stop action and colorful characters. In the final analysis, the book delivers all we've come to expect from a Mickey Spillane novel over the decades--plentiful action, riveting suspense, and a competent, tough hero who can take whatever his enemies have to throw at him. An explosive tale of intrigue and espionage, loyalty and betrayal, Something's Down There is a superior effort from an acknowledged master of mystery and suspense.
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Title: The Mike Hammer Collection Volume 1 by Mickey Spillane ISBN: 0451203526 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Mike Hammer Collection Volume 2 by Mickey Spillane, Lawrence Block ISBN: 0451204255 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 05 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Stone Cold: A Jesse Stone Novel by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0399150870 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 29 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bad Business by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0399151451 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 08 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Century of Noir: Thirty-Two Classic Crime Stories by Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins ISBN: 0451205960 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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