The Goliath Bone - Softcover

In the midst of a Manhattan snowstorm Mike Hammer halts the violent robbery of a pair of college sweethearts who have stumbled on a remarkable archaeological find in the Valley of Elah: the perfectly preserved femur of what may have been the biblical giant Goliath. Hammer postpones his marriage to his faithful girl Friday, Velda, to fight a foe deadlier than the mobsters and KGB agents of his past—Islamic terrorists and Israeli extremists bent upon recovering the relic for their own agendas.A week before his death, Mickey Spillane entrusted his nearly finished manuscript and extensive notes to his frequent collaborator, Max Allan Collins. The result is a thriller as classic as Spillane’s ownI, the Jury and as compelling as Collins’s Road to Perdition.

Mickey Spillane published his first novel, I, the Jury, in 1947. Since then his books have sold more than 140 million copies, and Mike Hammer, his private eye character, has become a household name. Mickey Spillane died on July 17, 2006.

Max Allan Collins was hailed in 2004 by Publishers Weekly as a new breed of writer” and is the bestselling author of the graphic novel,The Road to Perdition. Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife and their son.