Fri 25 Jul 2025
Archived Review: WILLIAM FULLER – Tight Squeeze.
Posted by Steve under Bibliographies, Lists & Checklists , Characters , Reviews[2] Comments
WILLIAM FULLER – Tight Squeeze. Brad Dolan # . Dell First Edition A189; paperback original; 1st printing, August 1959.
Brad Dolan is an adventurer, a man with a boat scrounging for a living in the Florida keys. Not averse to making a few dollars illegally, he accepts a girl’s offer of $3000 to run a shipment of guns to Castro’s guerilla army, still in hiding in the Cuban hills.
The plan goes wrong, of course. These were the heady days of the Cuban revolution, and Fuller’s description of it, in bold, vivid strokes, makes it seem a grand venture. Dolan has a head of rock, otherwise there’d be no story. A gripping macho fantasy.
The Brad Dolan series —
Back Country.
Goat Island.
The Girl in the Frame.
Brad Dolan’s Blonde Cargo.
Brad Dolan’s Miami Manhunt.
Tight Squeeze.
All were first published by Dell in the 1950s as paperback originals.
July 25th, 2025 at 11:27 pm
There is a short biography for Fuller on his Stark House Press page:
https://starkhousepress.com/fuller.php
ADDED LATER: I have just discovered that an enterprising publisher has reprinted all six of the Brad Dolan books. Here’s the link:
https://braddolan.com/
Lots of info on both Dolan and Fuller here.
July 26th, 2025 at 10:30 pm
The Dolan’s are also available in ebook form if you want to save a bit and just read them.