Mickey Spillane

“I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.”

if that ain't pulp enough for you, try this (from the nytimes):

In “I, the Jury,” Hammer became so angry at a female psychiatrist that he shot her in her “stark naked” stomach. (“Stark naked” was a phrase that Mr. Spillane rather liked.) As she died, she asked, “Mike, how could you?” To which Hammer replied, “It was easy.”

Everyone that knows me knows I love pulp fiction (yes, the movie too, but not as much). For some reason, I love books about pulp fiction writers (and the writers themselves) even more. Erickson's Tours of the Black Clock comes to mind.

Spillane was no Thompson, but he was first and an obvious inspiration, Thompson just wanted bad bad guys not bad good guys.