''Line of Fire'' is a thriller novel by

Donald Hamilton Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime ...

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,

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, 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

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