Line of Fire (novel)

Line of Fire
Paperback original
Author	Donald Hamilton
Cover artist	Raymond Pease
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Dell
Publication date	1955
Media type	Print (paperback)

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

Review by Bill Crider
Review by Bruce Grossman, Bookgasm

Other works by Donald Hamilton, author of the Matt Helm series

Novels and novellas	Date with Darkness (1947) The Black Cross (1947) The Steel Mirror (1948) Deadfall (1949) Smoky Valley (1954) Night Walker (1954) Line of Fire (1955) Too Soon Dead (1955) Mad River (1956) Assignment: Murder (1956) The Big Country (1958) The Man From Santa Clara (1960) Texas Fever (1960) The Mona Intercept (1980)

Short story collections	Murder Twice Told (1950) Iron Men and Silver Stars (1967)

Non-fiction	On Guns and Hunting (1970) Cruises With Kathleen (1980)

Film adaptations	The Violent Men (1955) 5 Steps to Danger (1957) The Big Country (1958)

Comic book adaptations	The Big Country (comics) (1958)

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