Dirty Harry novels Dirty Harry novels "Dirty Harry" novels include film novelizations and original tie-ins based on the "Dirty Harry" film franchise. Like the films, the novels portray Inspector "Dirty Harry" Callahan as he ruthlessly fights criminals. Novelizations of the first four films, "Dirty Harry", "Magnum Force", "The Enforcer", and "Sudden Impact", were published between 1971 and 1983. Additionally, after star Clint Eastwood announced he would make no further "Dirty Harry" films after "The Enforcer", Warner Books published twelve new novels attributed to Dane Hartman, a collective pen name used by at least three authors, between 1981 and 1983. Warner Bros. licensed novelizations
Dirty Harry (film series) on whenever the need arose". Manohla Dargis compared Eastwood's presence on film to "Dirty Harry" and the" Man with No Name", stating, "Dirty Harry is back, in a way, in "Gran Torino", not as a character but as a ghostly presence. He hovers in the film, in its themes and high-caliber imagery, and of course, most obviously in Mr. Eastwood’s face. It is a monumental face now, so puckered and pleated that it no longer looks merely weathered, as it has for decades, but seems closer to petrified wood." Tania Modleski, author of "Clint Eastwood and Male Weepies", said, "[f]or