LAST STAND HC
(W) Mickey Spillane
When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) MAX ALLAN COLLINS to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's birth, his millions of fans will at last get to read THE LAST STAND, together with a second never-before-published work, this one from early in Spillane's career: the feverish crime novella A BULLET FOR SATISFACTION. A tarnished former cop goes on a crusade to find a politician's killer and avoid the .45-caliber slug with his name on it. A pilot forced to make an emergency landing in the desert finds himself at the center of a struggle between FBI agents, unsavory fortune hunters, and members of the local Indian tribe to control a mysterious find that could mean wealth and power - or death. Two substantial new works filled with Spillane's muscular prose and the gorgeous women and two-fisted action the author was famous for, topped off by an introduction from MAX ALLAN COLLINS describing the history of these lost manuscripts and his long relationship with the writer who was his mentor, his hero, and for much of the last century the bestselling author in the world.
MIKE HAMMER WILL TO KILL MMPB
(W) Mickey Spillane
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 millionaire-also 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 man's family, all of whom have a motive for murder. The new Mike Hammer tale by masters of the hardboiled genre Mickey Spillane and MAX ALLAN COLLINS. Over 225 million copies of Spillane's books have sold internationally since first being published in 1947. He was the bestselling mystery writer of the 20th century (even out-selling Agatha Christie). Mike Hammer is his most famous creation and the precursor to characters like James Bond, Dirty Harry and Jack Bauer. "Mike Hammer is an icon of our culture." The New York Times.
QUARRYS WAR GN
(W) MAX ALLAN COLLINS (A) Edu Menna
Written by renowned comic writer and author of the Quarry Hard Case Crime novels, MAX ALLAN COLLINS ('Road to Perdition', 'Batman', 'Action Comics Weekly') and illustrated by Szymon Kudranski ('Batman: Streets of Gotham', 'Spider-Man', 'Spawn'). Former U.S. Marine sniper Quarry has found a new vocation as a professional assassin. But when his latest contract turns out to be an old acquaintance from his military days, the fresh-faced hit man finds himself battling against his own conscience as secrets from the past start to reveal themselves.