The Japanese man named Ken walked over and seized him around the neck, while at the same time pulling his right arm around behind him, a decisive hammerlock.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
"The only thing," I told her solemnly, "that Hoiman ever got a hammerlock on was a dollar bill!"
"Hoiman and the Solar Circuit"
Gordon Dewey
One guard got a hammerlock on me.
"The Door Through Space"
Marion Zimmer Bradley