Everything you need to understand or teach The Erection Set by Mickey Spillane.
Many of the old Spillane themes as well are present in this early 1970s novel. The characters reprise traditional Spillane figures, embodying traits of the old Mike Hammer gang.
Dog, for all his background, appears uncannily like both Tiger and Mike.
Violence still occupies a central place in the novel, and sex figures even more centrally, largely, one suspects, the result of loosening restrictions on what could and could not be published.
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