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Ace Reporter. Private Dick.

Good work. You found my secret file cabinet of personal dossiers.

THE CITY IS ON FIRE. We are under attack. The static is getting louder. I received a message about a safe house, but the location was encrypted.

Then a punk kid rode by on his bike, tossed a crumpled paper at my chest, and yelled:

"Hey Hammer! You're looking in the wrong place! The truth isn't on the front page... it's in the ten cent rag! Find the Pulp-Noir under a dime!"

And with that, he was gone into the smog. Follow the clue. Follow me.

The Broadcast

Jack Hammer’s Pulp Noir Audiobooks: W-HAM-ER

Radio W-HAM-ER, the official broadcast for Jack Hammer's pulp noir audiobooks.

W-HAM-ER Radio You’ve just tuned in to W-HAM-ER, the official frequency for Jack Hammer’s pulp noir audiobooks. Tired of the…

The Library

NewzHammer Publishing: Jack Hammer’s Memoir Noir Collection

Jack Hammer of newzhammer publishing in a busy printing plant printing his memoirs

Hammer Publishing: Jack Hammer’s Memoirs At Hammer Publishing, we believe a great story isn’t just told—it’s extracted from the source…


FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

🥃 THE TOP SHELF

  • THE NEWS STAND
    • Vintage pulps. 10-cent inspiration.
"They say laughter's the best medicine. I guess that's why my doctor told me to quit journalism and start a clown college. But then I realized, most of the clowns are already in politics. And their jokes? Not nearly as funny as the ones I dig up on the daily."

Yours Truly, Jack Hammer.
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The Case of the Missing First Lady

An Evening at the Local Playhouse

The Saga

Full Jack Hammer Saga: The Architecture of Awareness

Black and white noir themed image of two gangsters standing over a man who has been shot in the chest

Over 2 hours and growing: Build a complex maze, feed it enough data, and the shadow in the center just…

Hammer Op-Eds

The Tax Man Cometh, The People Get Nothing

smug politician revealing a hidden stack of cash while a confused citizen struggles to read a complex tax form.

They’re selling you a story. A grand plan. They call it a new tax law, a fix for the broken…

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

Folder THE PRIVATE STASH

  • GRINDHOUSE THEATER
    • Research. Old movies that tell the truth.
"I tried to write a story about honesty in Washington, but my typewriter jammed. Must’ve sensed the lie before I did. Around here, truth’s an endangered species—spotted once a decade, stuffed, mounted, and trotted out for campaign season."

Yours Truly,
Jack Hammer.
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Noir image of PI in office with scattered files
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The Desk of Jack Hammer

Jack Hammer6 months ago2 months ago

THE HAMMER FILES

THE EVIDENCE SHREDDED BY THE SYSTEM.

My office hasn’t just been hit—the System ran a cleaner through the archive. As you can see, the files are a random mess because the Controller scrambled the Index and shuffled the ledger. We’ve got a lot of sifting to do if we’re going to recover the case reports and re-sequence my stolen manuscripts. This pile is the wreckage of a system failure. If you’re in on the game, this is where we start.

A graphic novel style, high-contrast, black-and-white image of a noir private eye seen at his desk sitting with his feet up on the desk as he stares at the twinkling city lights outside of his window.
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The Office – Jack Hammer

Jack Hammer2 months ago2 months ago02 mins mins

They say this town is built on dreams, but from where I’m sitting, it looks more like it’s built on…

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Black and white, pulp-noir style image of a happy family birthday scene. Private investigator Jack Hammer sits at a square table in a country kitchen, with a beautiful woman on his left and an 8-year-old girl on his right, who is blowing out the candles on her birthday cake.
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Jack Hammer-A Rip in Time Part 2: December’s Birthday

Jack Hammer3 months ago2 months ago03 mins mins

Noir Detective Jack Hammer begins living the shocking revelations he learned about himself in A Rip in Time Part 1….

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A black and white image of a towering, modern, fortress-like medical facility standing alone in a vast, desolate Mojave Desert landscape under a cloudy, dramatic sky.
  • The Case of the Pop Bottle Millionaire

Pop Bottle Millionaire: The Desert Fortress

Jack Hammer4 months ago4 months ago03 mins mins

The Desert Fortress I started digging. A paper trail a mile wide, all of it cold until the very end….

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A high-contrast, black-and-white, noir-style pulp cartoon image of a small clinic, viewed from a rain-slicked parking lot. The clinic building is dark and gritty, with a prominent sign that reads "Hope Springs Eternal." A lone figure in a trench coat and fedora stands near a vintage car, adding to the somber and mysterious atmosphere.
  • Chapter 2: An Inheritance of Grief
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THE HAMMER FILES: The Final Truth

Jack Hammer5 months ago4 months ago03 mins mins

Case Point: The Clinic The clinic, “Hope Springs Eternal,” was the only one in the phone book. I found it…

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Gritty, grayscale Jack Hammer style illustration of Jack, startled awake on his desk by a ringing phone, with a liquor bottle and full ashtray. Sincerely yours, Jack Hammer.
  • Chapter 1: The Case of December's Debt
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THE HAMMER FILES: My Home My Office

Jack Hammer5 months ago4 months ago05 mins mins

Home at Lost The cab was an old yellow dog, its engine wheezing with every turn. I paid the fare—plus…

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A high-contrast, black-and-white shot of the typist hands hovering over a glowing, ethereal typewrite. Instead of keys, his fingers are dipping into a pool of liquid light/code.
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Blood Loyalty and Paradise: Braving the New World

Jack Hammer2 months ago2 months ago03 mins mins

Braving the New World White. A white-hot burn of terror in a white-hot expanse of infinity. I had no body,…

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THE EDITOR’S DESK

The Desk of Jack Hammer

Noir image of PI in office with scattered files

I’m Jack Hammer: This is My Story The name’s Hammer. Jack Hammer. I’ve been walking these mean streets long enough…

THE DOCKET

The Cleaner Who Couldn’t Scrub Hard Enough: Lindsey Halligan Strikes Out Trump DOJ’s Bad Day

Noir flavored image of a cheap suit lying in the wet muddy streets of DC

The rain doesn’t wash the grime off the streets of D.C. or the stink off of Lindsey Halligan. It just…

CASE CLOSED

The Case of the Missing First Lady

A grayscale noir-style cartoon of a veiled showgirl whispering a secret to a detective in a trench coat and fedora in a foggy, European city.

The Case of the Missing First Lady The President walked into my office on a Monday morning, looking less like…

THE EDITOR’S OFFICE

NewzHammer Magazine: Pulp-Noir Fiction & News from Jack Hammer

NewzHammer pulp-noir graphic magazine cover by Jack Hammer, featuring a trench-coat clad detective in a rainy alley with a femme fatale in a doorway.

This is NewzHammer Magazine. Let’s be perfectly clear on that. There’s no staff. No ghostwriters. Just me, DW. And if…

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