Donald Hamilton
Birth date: March 24, 1916
Died: November 20, 2006
Donald Hamilton's Books
“Original orders operative, changes cancelled. Go get him.” Matt Helm is Back In Action and, it has to be said, getting people killed by making damn fool assumptions about them. Early Nordic noir, this one, with Helm sent to the land of Donald Hamilton’s birth to take snaps of Swedish tourist spots ...
“I was through being a model citizen. I was myself again.” Matt Helm is at a party with his missus when an old flame shows up on the arm of some pituitary case. Most of us ordinary chaps (or any character in a Nick Hornby or Helen Fielding novel) would confine ourselves to getting drunk, being bitte...
My first Donald Hamilton book.I got bothered by some of the dated aspects. I pretty much don't take that sort of stuff in my stride when it comes to vintage literature. I figure it goes with the territory, but sometimes it doesn't work, as it's the case.Regarding the effectiveness of the two twists ...
While hitchhiking to Norfolk to report for active duty, Navy Lieutenant David Young is smashed over the head with a tire iron and left for dead in a burning car. When he comes to, burned and bandaged in the hospital, everyone thinks he's Larry Wilson, the man who picked him up. It turns out Larry ...