Mickey Spillane

Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by the master of noir Mickey Spillane, takes on the mob in the first of two gripping final novels for the deadly private eye.Winter 1964. After a hit-and-run accident nearly kills her mother, Mike Hammers partner (both in life and the PI business), Velda Sterling, learns her father is not who she thought he is. Seeking to uncover her true, troubling heritage, Velda and Mike travel to Phoenix, Arizonaand sunny Dreamland Park, where retired law enforcement officers protect and corral notorious criminals held under Witness Protection.Mike and Velda find themselves swept up in escalating violence, fueled by the missing millions from an armored-car robbery, which leads them to a deadly midnight confrontation in a cemeterywhere secrets are buried and open graves await.

"HE WAS THE KILLER AND I WAS THE TARGET." It should be a mellow time for Americas toughest PI, Mike Hammer. He and Velda are planning their overdue nuptials, and his friend Captain of Homicide Pat Chambers is nearing retirement. Then an assassins bullet almost brings him 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, decades ago? And how to explain the sudden rash of "accidental" deaths that has hit the NYPD? Theres 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, not to mention the malign influence of convict mastermind the "King of the Weeds", Mike has to prove that he is just as sharp, and deadly, as ever.

Mike Hammer hits his 75th anniversary hard, after the disappearance of Velda, in this brand new case set between Kiss Me, Deadly and The Girl Hunters, based on an unproduced screenplay from Mickey Sp

From the New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins and the iconic master of noir Mickey Spillane comes the first book in the Mike Hammer series.In the midst of a Manhattan snowstorm, Hammer halts the violent robbery of a pair of college sweethearts who have stumbled onto a remarkable archaeological find in the Valley of Elah: the perfectly preserved femur ofwhat may have been the biblical giant Goliath. Hammer postpones his marriage to his faithful girlfriend, Velda, to fight a foe deadlier than the mobsters and KGB agents of his pastIslamic terrorists and Israeli extremists bent upon recovering the relic for their own agendas.

Taking a midnight stroll along the Hudson River, Mike Hammer gets more than he bargained for: a partial corpse on an ice floe. The body is that of a butler to a millionairealso now deceased. Were both master and servant murdered? Captain Pat Chambers thinks so. But to prove it Hammer must travel to upstate New York to investigate the dead mans family, all of whom have a motive for murder.

THE LOST FIRST MIKE HAMMER THRILLER! The lost book that begins the iconic Mike Hammer series by Mickey Spillane, finally completed by Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition.Mike Hammer steals a ride on a train upstate to Killington. But he is welcomed by a nasty surprise: he is accused by police of raping and murdering a young woman near the freight yards. Roughed up by the cops and facing a murder charge, Hammers future looks bleak. Only a beautiful blonde, Melba Charlesdaughter of powerful Senator Charlesmight possibly save him if he pays the price.But why would Melba help save a man she has never met? And, more to the point, where is the real murderer?From a brittle, brown manuscript, the first Mike Hammer novelbegun by Mickey Spillane in the mid-forties and completed seventy years later by Max Allan Collinsis a gift to mystery fans on the occasion of the noir masters 100th birthday.

THE FINAL CRIME NOVEL FROM THE KING OF PULP FICTION! For 20 years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriends death in an attempted abduction. But what if she didnt actually die? What if she somehow secretly survived, but lost her sight, her memory, and everything else she had...except her enemies? Now Jack has a second chance to save the only woman he ever loved - or to lose her for good.

"FRIEND, YOURE TALKING TO A GUY WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD AND THE POLICE AT HIS BACK"Compared to the $40 million the cops think he stole, seventy-five thousand may not sound like much. But its all the money in the world to the struggling Cuban exiles of Miami who rescued Morgan the Raider. So when its snatched by a man the Cubans trusted, Morgan sets out to get it back. A simple favor but as the bodies pile up...dead men and beautiful women.. .the Raider wonders what kind of Latin hell hes gotten himself into, and just who or what is the mysterious Consummata?Begun by mystery master MICKEY SPILLANE in the late 1960s and completed four decades later by his buddy MAX ALLAN COLLINS (Road to Perdition), The Consummata is the long-awaited follow-up to Spillanes bestseller The Delta Factor -- a breathtaking tale of treachery, sensuality, and violence, showcasing two giants of crime fiction at their pulse-pounding, two-fisted best.

Mike Hammer es un duro detective neoyorquino poco amigo de normas o disciplina, un prodigio de fuerza física y mental. En este libro se incluyen dos de sus más famosas historias: Bésame, moribunda y

Frank Morrison Spillane, más conocido como Mickey Spillane (1918-2006), comenzó su carrera de escritor como guionista de cómics, y por su pluma pasaron algunos de los más famosos personajes del medio: Superman, Batman, el Capitan Marvel o el Capitan America. En 1945, escribio su primera novela, que completo en tan solo 19 dias y de la que vendio seis millones y medio de copias solo en Estados Unidos. En ella presento su mas famosa creacion, el detective privado Mike Hammer, que entraria en la historia del genero negro por la puerta grande y del que escribio un total de 13 novelas. Ahora, ECC Ediciones presenta la coleccion Mike Hammer, de Mickey Spillane con nuevas y muy cuidadas traducciones.

Una noche el detective Mike Hammer hace una parada en un bar. Allí encuentra una provocativa pelirroja,solitaria, sin mucha clientela ni suerte en la vida. Ambos entablan una amistosa conversación que acaba con uncomentario del detective a la joven: todo le iria mejor si cambiara de trabajo. Sin embargo, ella apenas tiene tiempode seguir su consejo porque al dia siguiente muere atropellada por un coche que se da a la fuga. Aunque la policia creeque se trata de un simple accidente de trafico, Mike Hammer sospecha que hay algo que no cuadra. El deseo de darsentido a la muerte de la joven le lleva a sumergirse poco a poco en un mundo sordido y violento. El rudo y curtidoMike Hammer, indiscutiblemente uno de los detectives mas famosos del genero negro, es el protagonista absoluto de Mipistola es veloz. En esta exitosa novela aparecida por primera vez en 1950, Mickey Spillane plasma como nadie los bajosfondos de Nueva York, dota a la trama de un ritmo vertiginoso y sigue dando vida a un personaje iconico de la culturaamericana.

Jack Williams, el mejor amigo de Mike Hammer y a quien éste le debe la vida, ha sido brutalmente asesinado. Hammer, ante el cadáver de Williams, hace el solemne juramento de encontrar al autor del homicidio y de tomarse la justicia por su mano, puesto que no confia en que el sistema judicial estadounidense imponga el castigo que el pretende infligir. Sin embargo, el camino hacia su objetivo final no sera nada facil, ya que lo que se esconde tras el asesinato de Williams parece ser mas complejo y peligroso de lo previsto.Con Yo, el jurado Mickey Spillane presento en sociedad a Mike Hammer, uno de los personajes mas famosos y politicamente incorrectos de la historia del genero policiaco, el cual, a pesar de las polemicas que ha levantado a lo largo de su vida literaria, ha sabido siempre conectar facilmente con el gran publico, como lo demuestran las cifras millonarias de ventas de sus novelas y el hecho de haber sido llevado en diversas ocasiones a la gran pantalla y a la television.

The toughest private eye in mystery fiction is back - it's the middle of the Swinging Sixties in midtown Manhattan Hammer, recuperating from a near fatal mix-up with the Mob, disturbs some drug dealers assaulting a young motorbike messenger who was transporting medicine for a hospital He saves the kid but the muggers are not so lucky The Mob and a new young breed of drug trafficker assume he will target them, and they target him right back, with a street-corner knife attack...

In Mickey Spillane''s classic private eye novels, the action exploded in a bone crunching catharsis. Men and women didn''t make love - they collided. Tough brutes used their fists to drive home a message. Tougher broads used guile. And no one''s morals were loftier than the gutter. No apologies. Little redemption. These novels rendered critics powerless, shocked intellectuals, inspired a new wave of pulp mayhem, and left the public hungry for more.

Mike Hammers deadly final adventure challenges everything we knew about the enduring noir detective in this gripping finale with a shocking twist.The concluding Hammer novel begins with a 21st-century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1973.Nine years after the events of Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation - this time on Long Island to help look after his partner Velda Sterlings seventeen-year-old sibling, Mikki.Mikki must deal with the attention of two boys vying for her affection Hammer preferring the good kid from a wealthy family over the long-haired doper with an Easy Rider vibe. When Mikki gets hooked on heroin, Hammer filled with contempt for dope dealers goes on a rampage. He will find those behind the drug racket and teach them what shooting up is all about.But a final resolution awaits him in the future at that funeral...

Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by hard-boiled crime master Mickey Spillane and written by New York Times bestseller Max Allan Collins, returns in Masquerade for Murder.Hammer is at a high society party when a wealthy and well-respected man, Colby, is hit by a car and badly injured. When all he expected was a night on the town, Mike is hired to find out who was driving the car. His search leads him on a trail of murders, the victims often exhibiting the same kind of strangulation as the cause of death. How are they connected to an accident involving Corby, and why is the man himself acting so strangely?