The Goliath Bone

In the midst of a Manhattan snowstorm, Hammer halts the violent robbery of a pair of college sweethearts who have stumbled onto 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, to complete.The result is a thriller as classic as Spillane’s ownI, the Jury and as compelling as Collins’s Road to Perdition.

MICKEY SPILLANE (19182006) sold hundreds of millions of books. He introduced Mike Hammer to readers in 1947 withI, the Jury and was named a British Crime Writers' Association Grand Master in 1995.

MAX ALLAN COLLINS is the author of Saving Private Ryan and the bestselling graphic novelRoad to Perdition, among other works. He lives in Muscatine, Iowa.