Mike Hammer: King of the Weeds: A Mike Hammer Novel - Softcover

Spillane, Mickey; Collins, Max Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857689789 ISBN 13: 9780857689788

Publisher: Titan Books, 2015

Synopsis

"HE WAS THE KILLER AND I WAS THE TARGET.”

It should be a mellow time for America’s toughest PI. He and Velda are planning their nuptials, and Captain of Homicide Pat Chambers is nearing retirement. Then an assassin’s bullet almost brings Mike down on his office doorstep. Could the attempted hit have anything to do with the impending release of a serial killer put away by Mike and Pat? There’s also the small matter of the $89 billion in Mafia money stashed in a cave, in a location known only to Hammer. With everyone from wiseguys to the US Government on his tail,  Mike must prove that he is just as sharp, and deadly, as ever.

About this title

About the Author:

Mickey Spillane is the legendary crime writer credited with igniting the explosion of paperback publishing after World War II as a result of the unprecedented success of his Mike Hammer novels, feeding the public's appetite for sexy, violent, straight-talking crime stories. He also starred as Mike Hammer in The Girl Hunters. Mickey Spillane died at the age of 88 in 2006.

Max Allan Collins is the author of Road to Perdition, the acclaimed graphic novel that inspired the movie, and of the multiple-award-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries, Max Allan Collins is one of most prolific and popular authors working in the field today.  He is also the literary executor of Mickey Spillane.

From Booklist:

Mysteries abound in the next-to-last Mike Hammer novel, left incomplete when Spillane died in 2006 and finished seamlessly by frequent Spillane collaborator Collins. For starters, who’s trying to kill Mike? Does his attempted murder have anything to do with a 40-year-old case in which an incarcerated serial killer is claiming to be innocent? Or has someone else found out about the $89 ­billion—yes, you read that right, $89 ­billion—in Mob money that Mike has stashed away in a sealed-off mountain cave? Set in the late 1990s, the book reads like any of Spillane’s vintage Hammer novels, with the customary mixture of violence and witty dialogue. Fans of the long-running series (which began with 1947’s I, the Jury) should bump this one to the top of their reading lists. --David Pitt

About this edition

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0857689789
• ISBN 13: 9780857689788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320