Dead Street - Softcover

Spillane, Mickey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0843957778 ISBN 13: 9780843957778

Publisher: Hard Case Crime, 2001

Synopsis

Haunted by his girlfriend's death in an attempted abduction, former NYPD cop Jack Stang discovers that she is alive but has lost her sight, her memory, and everything else, except her enemies, and realizes that he has been given a second chance to save the only woman he has ever loved. Original.

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One of a handful of novels he was working on at the time of his death, this fine, perhaps final, work from hard-boiled fiction icon Spillane (1918–2006) was prepared for publication by Hard Case vet Max Allan Collins. In it, NYPD detective Jack Stang receives word that his old fiancee, Bettie, who supposedly died in a kidnapping-gone-wrong 20 years earlier, is still alive and residing in a small Florida coastal community. The good news is countered by the fact that, in the car crash that was supposed to have killed her, she lost her eyesight and all her memories. Even worse, the men who had her kidnapped in the first place have perfectly good memories and are still looking for her—and willing to kill for the information locked in her damaged brain. This is a more sentimental Spillane than readers might expect, but the women are still dolls, the bad guys are still louses, and the hero still packs a helluva punch (along with his trusty .45, natch). Spillane always said he wrote for his fans, not for the critics, but both should be pleased with this late addition to the writer's canon. (Nov.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Hard Case Crime
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0843957778
• ISBN 13: 9780843957778
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 219