Everything you need to understand or teach I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane.
I, the Jury begins with the murder of Mike Hammer's best friend and fellow GI, Jack Williams, who died a slow and painful death with two bullets in the stomach. Mike vows vengeance for the death and announces that he will shoot the killer in the same painful way. So vengeance is the first and overriding theme announced in the novel. That Mike will have to work within, but also outside of, the...