With

Day of the Guns

Mickey Spillane introduces a master hero, a man as forceful as his name. Tiger Mann is afraid of no one, and he is backed by so powerful a group that he can set his own rules. For Tiger is not merely a sleuth but a major counterespionage agent. And his entry marks the beginning of a new kind of Spillane story — a story with a wonderfully colorful background of international intrigue.

Tiger Mann doesn’t start out on a Communist-hunting assignment. He is just eating lunch with a columnist friend when his attention — and that of everyone else in the restaurant — is caught by the arrival of an outstandingly beautiful girl. The columnist identifies her as Edith Caine, an English girl of fine heritage and equally unusual abilities as a U.N. translator. But Tiger knows better: he recognizes her as Rondine Lund, an Austrian who was a Nazi spy during the war. Tiger had been in love with her — had even saved her life. She had repaid him by shooting him and leaving him for dead.

Now Tiger is determined to get even — to kill Rondine in his own good time — after he finds out what she is up to at the U.N. For Tiger, it is largely a personal vendetta. But the secret organization behind Tiger wants him for a bigger mission: to stop a major Communist conspiracy.

The result is one of Spillane’s most exciting tales — thanks to a super counterespionage man who is as spectacular as he is ruthless.