Eric wrote:
"It occurred to me recently that Spillane's work influenced a
whole subgenre of writing, (I'm not going to say literature.)
I refer to the
'vigilante,lone individual dealing out graphically violent
"justice" ' series, like the Destroyer,Executioner, Nick
Carter , the Penetrator, et al."
You might be interested in William's Ruehlman's Saint with a
Gun, which discusses this lineage in some detail.
Mark
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