Donald Bengtsson Hamilton was a U.S. writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction but also crime fiction and Westerns. He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency.

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  • Donald Bengtsson Hamilton was a U.S. writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction but also crime fiction and Westerns. He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: "Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and probably as close to the sordid truth of espionage, as any now being told."
  • Donald Hamilton este un autor american de origine suedeză, scriitor de romane, nuvele, povestiri şi de literatură non-ficţiune axată pe teme de viaţă în aer liber. Romanele sale sunt în majoritatea lor de tipul romanelor de spionaj, romanelor de investigaţii sau western. Donald Hamilton este în special cunoscut pentru seria lungă de romane avându-l ca protagonist pe acelaşi personaj, Matt Helm, parte spion, parte agent al unei agenţii secrete a guvernului SUA, parte asasin. Într-o analiză pertinentă şi exhaustivă, cunoscutul critic literar american Anthony Boucher scria: "Donald Hamilton a adus literatura de spionaj la un nivel autentic de realism dur/credibil ca al celor lui Dashiell Hammett; poveştile sale sunt bine articulate şi probabil atât de aproape de adevărul sordid al spionajului ca şi cum ar fi oricare din cele adevărate care ne-ar fi povestite acum."
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  • Donald Bengtsson Hamilton was a U.S. writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction but also crime fiction and Westerns. He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency.
  • Donald Hamilton este un autor american de origine suedeză, scriitor de romane, nuvele, povestiri şi de literatură non-ficţiune axată pe teme de viaţă în aer liber. Romanele sale sunt în majoritatea lor de tipul romanelor de spionaj, romanelor de investigaţii sau western. Donald Hamilton este în special cunoscut pentru seria lungă de romane avându-l ca protagonist pe acelaşi personaj, Matt Helm, parte spion, parte agent al unei agenţii secrete a guvernului SUA, parte asasin.
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  • Donald Hamilton
  • Donald Hamilton
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