Although Spillane's writing has gotten smoother through the years, his fiction still retains the direct, spare style which best suits the action and characters of his narratives. As with the Mike Hammer books, it is often raining in Tiger Mann's New York, but Spillane does not spend much time waxing poetic about it; he just tells his readers that it is wet outside. The dialogue is smooth and retains the staccato rhythms Spillane developed earlier. Tiger Mann, like Mike Hammer, is a man of more action than words.

As with the Hammer books, Spillane uses names to signify characteristics: Tiger Mann is obviously one tiger of a man as the females in the books occasionally mention. In the spy novels most of the evil figures have foreign sounding names, like Vidor Churis, to accompany their suitably alien personae. Many of the other minor characters possess names which also...