Line of Fire (novel)

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| author = Donald Hamilton

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| genre = Thriller

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| pub_date = 1955

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Line of Fire is a thriller novel by Donald Hamilton.

Plot summary and Evaluation

An assassination attempt carried out for a local crime boss by gun shop owner Paul Nyquist, is interrupted by a young woman.

Among Hamilton's early works, it is easily as believable as Death of a Citizen, the origin of Hamilton's Helm series. Hamilton achieves here the difficult job of offering an Action-Adventure that requires no suspension of disbelief by the reader.

Publication history

1955, USA, Dell, Dell First Edition #46, paperback
1956, UK, Allan Wingate, hardcover
1958, UK, Panther #768, paperback
1964, USA, Fawcett Publications, Gold Medal k1480, paperback, reprinted several times
1969, UK, Hodder Fawcett (publisher), Coronet Books, paperback

External links

[http://billcrider.blogspot.com/2007/04/line-of-fire-donald-hamilton.html Review] by Bill Crider
[http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/bullets-broads-blackmail-bombs-break-from-character/ Review] by Bruce Grossman, [http://www.bookgasm.com/ Bookgasm]

Category:1955 American novels

Category:American thriller novels

Category:Novels by Donald Hamilton

Category:Dell Publishing books