Mike Hammer’s secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered, an old cop who once worked with Velda on the N.Y.P.D. Vice Squad. What’s more, Mike’s pal Captain Pat Chambers has discovered that Velda is in Florida, the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn.

Hammer hits the road and drives to Miami, where he enlists the help of a horse-faced newspaperman and a local police detective. But can they find Velda in time? And what is the connection between the murdered vice cop in Manhattan, and Mike’s ex turning gun moll in Florida?

“[O]ne of his best, liberally dosed with the razor-edged prose and violence that marked the originals.” Publishers Weekly

“For Mike Hammer’s fans—yes, there are still plenty of them out there—it’s a sure bet.” Booklist

“It’s vintage peak-era Spillane so seamless it’s hard to see where the Spillane ends and the Collins picks up.” Crime Time

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KING OF THE WEEDS

MICKEY SPILLANE & MAX ALLAN COLLINS

As his old friend Captain Pat Chambers of Homicide approaches retirement, Hammer finds himself up against a clever serial killer targeting only cops. A killer Chambers had put away many years ago is suddenly freed on new, apparently indisputable evidence, and Hammer wonders if, somehow, this seemingly placid, very odd old man might be engineering cop killings that all seem to be either accidental or by natural causes.

At the same time Hammer and Velda are dealing with the fallout—some of it mob, some of it federal government—over the 89-billion-dollar cache the detective is (rightly) suspected of finding not long ago…

“Collins’ witty, hardboiled prose would make Raymond Chandler proud.”

Entertainment Weekly

“Another terrific Mike Hammer caper that moves non-stop like a flying cheetah across the reader’s field of imagination.”

Pulp Fiction Reviews

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