Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (October 2008)

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“Mike Hammer, the toughest detective of the century, versus Al Qaeda? How cool is that? In what may be the last Mike Hammer story, writer Max Allan Collins finishes a partially written Mickey Spillane script in which the tough guy from the fifties takes on the bad guys of the new millennium over the bones of the ultimate bad guy—Goliath. How could it get better? Stacy Keach, the actor who played Mike Hammer on television in the 1980s, narrates. Ah, bliss. Keach has that tough-as-nails/heart-of-gold patter down. What might sound clichéd and over- the-top in other hands works perfectly with Keach in charge. It's an extraordinary piece of noir, and there ain't a lot of that still around, baby.” —AudioFile

“Though he’s now a self-admitted ‘member of AARP,’ Hammer remains as tough as a boiled owl....Stacy Keach, arguably the private eye’s best interpreter, has been aging along with him. His well-trained voice carries the perfect combination of un-withered age, strength, and determination...[A] fine send-off...with Keach adding a poignancy that even a tough guy like Spillane would have appreciated.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Mike Hammer is an icon of our culture....There’s a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate.” —New York Times

The best-selling American mystery writer of all time brings back his world-famous private eye, Mike Hammer, for his biggest and most dangerous case yet.

On an amateur archeology dig in Israel, two students discover what appears to be the femur of the Biblical giant Goliath. As the novel opens, the young couple head into a subway station with the carefully wrapped bone in the boy’s arms, when a hit man attempts to kill them. Mike Hammer, seeing the situation develop, comes to their rescue. It is only the beginning of their trouble as various factions will stop at little to obtain the precious item, each for their own selfish reasons. But Hammer and his loyal secretary, Velda, assure once again that good triumphs over evil.

Before he died, Mickey Spillane wrote the beginning and end of The Goliath Bone, as well as outlining the middle section, which was completed by his long-time friend and collaborator, the acclaimed mystery writer Max Allan Collins.

About the Authors: FRANK MORRISON SPILLANE (1918–2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in New Jersey. He started writing while in high school. Many of his crime novels feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. By 1980, he was responsible for seven of the top fifteen all-time best-selling fiction titles in America. He received an Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award in 1995.

MAX ALLAN COLLINS, is the author of the acclaimed graphic novel Road to Perdition, which became the Academy Award-winning Tom Hanks film. A New York Times best-selling author, Collins has won two Best Novel "Shamus" awards from the Private Eye Writers of America for his Nathan Heller series. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film-festival favorite, The Last Lullaby, based on his novel The Last Quarry. He collaborated with Mickey Spillane on numerous projects and was Spillane’s choice to work with his estate to complete a number of unfinished Mike Hammer novels.

Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins collaborated on numerous projects. They co-edited four anthologies presenting new and/or classic stories by a variety of American crime writers, and their co-creation, the science-fiction incarnation of Mike Danger, was a popular comic-book series in the 1990s. With Spillane’s cooperation and help, Collins edited or co-edited six volumes collecting previously uncollected Spillane short stories and comics work. Occasional actor Spillane also appeared in Collins’ two "Mommy" films, as a criminal lawyer, and was the subject of an award-winning Collins documentary. Both writers received the Eye Award for Life Achievement from the Private Eye Writers of America.

About the Performer: STACY KEACH, known worldwide for his television portrayal of detective Mike Hammer, is a consummate actor equally at home on stage, film, television, and audio narration. He has garnered numerous awards for his stage roles, most recently as Richard Nixon in the Kennedy Center’s production of “Frost/Nixon.”