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Mike Hammer is back- and in deeper trouble than ever before. With two rock-hard fists, a well-oiled .45, his beautiful secretary, Velda, and a miracle, Hammer might make it out of this one alive...
Mickey Spillane has been writing superb detective fiction for the last 40 years- he's in a league of his own. A+++++
Mickey Spillane has been writing superb detective fiction for the last 40 years- he's in a league of his own. A+++++
Mike Hammer is back -- and in deeper trouble than ever before. He has the gunning down of an old army buddy to bpay back with interest -- and two generations of the most powerful family in the Mafia to beat at their own gory games. He has a missing chunk of vital memory blown out of his head by a bullet in his guts. But above all, there is a missing cache of $89 billion to find in a slick maze of false clues, phony stories, and brutal betrayals -- and before the bad guys get their hands on it and their sights on him. And to really complicate matters, the Feds have dealt themselves into the game, eager to beat everybody to the loot.
With two rock-hard fists, a well-oiled .45, his beautiful secretart, Velda, and a miracle, Hammer might make it out of this one alive...
With two rock-hard fists, a well-oiled .45, his beautiful secretart, Velda, and a miracle, Hammer might make it out of this one alive...
Mike Hammer is a hard guy to kill. Caught in a gangster shootout in New York City, Hammer takes two slugs in the gut. Triage teams leave the tough PI for dead, but a burned-out doctor, wasting away in dockside bars, reclaims his professional pride and brings Hammer back from the brink. Mending slowly, Hammer learns that his old war buddy, Marcos Dooley, has been shot. As he dies, Dooley gives a Hammer a clue regarding $89 billion in cash, crime proceeds hidden by old-guard mobsters fearing a power play by younger hoods. With his still-faithful partner, Velda, Hammer launches a treasure hunt that takes him to Florida and upstate New York, butting heads with the feds (they want the money, too) and the remorseless son of an old mob don. Spillane's hard-boiled hero has softened with time; he finally tells Velda how he really feels about her, but, on doctor's orders, he refrains from consummation. "You're really trying to ruin your reputation, aren't you," Velda complains. Not likely. Spillane keeps the pulpy action coming, with hot lead, male bonding and a sex kitten. Mike Hammer looks like he'll make the next century, even if it means bran flakes and 2% milk for breakfast.
Mike Hammer is back! And if he's lucky he'll stay alive. With 2 Mafia families and the Feds on his tail, he will need a well-oiled .45, Velda and a miracle. Great book, suspensful, gritty and bloody. But did you expect anything less?
Haven't read it, so I am posting it so someone else might enjoy it. It's a hardboiled detective story starring Mike Hammer, and should have lots of action.
