- Fiction
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, unpretentious, cool and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Donald Hamilton
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 345
- Publisher
- Fawcett
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780449127551
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 5 want to.
Donald Bengtsson Hamilton was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as The Big Country. He is known best for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: "Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and probably as close to the sordid truth of espionage, as any now being told."
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
- THE RETALIATORS (Matt Helm) 198489% alikeBoth classical in form, unpretentious, cool.
The intriguers 197387% alikeBoth classical in form, cool, unpretentious.
The crimson circle 192284% alikeBoth classical in form, cool, unpretentious.
The Man Who Bought London 200183% alikeBoth classical in form, unpretentious, cool.
The Janus Man 198782% alikeBoth classical in form, unpretentious, cool.- Force 10 From Navarone 196882% alikeBoth classical in form, unpretentious, earnest.
Goodbye California 197782% alikeBoth classical in form, unpretentious, cool.
The Saint 199781% alikeBoth classical in form, unpretentious, cool.
Street Hawk 198581% alikeTelevision · Both unpretentious, classical in form, earnest.
The Protector 198579% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, unpretentious, earnest.