Friday, August 01, 2003

I just sent off an email to the gentleman who runs Matt Helm: The Unofficial Homepage.. It appears to be Don Winans.
I grew up a passionate fan of Matt Helm. I don't have everything Don Hamilton ever wrote, but I'd like to.
And I don't speak the language of the Spy Thriller critics, but Matt Helm is hard-boiled, hard-core, brutally honest, down-and-dirty while yet cerebral, cynically patriotic action. Don Pendleton came close with his Executioner series, but the question "How does he get away with that shit?" is never quite satisfactorily answered.
From age 9 to age 16 I often tried to direct my path toward becoming Matt Helm.

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