Happy 100th birthday to crime writer Mickey Spillane.
Titan Books announced today a new crime
novel from the late Mickey Spillane on his 100th birthday.
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.
You can also read my Crime Beat column on Mickey Spillane via the below link:
You can find Max Allan Collins' introduction to this book here:
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