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Mickey Spillane. (2018). The Last Stand. Titan.

Mickey Spillane. 2018. The Last Stand. Titan.

Mickey Spillane, The Last Stand. Titan, 2018.

Mickey Spillane. The Last Stand. Titan, 2018.

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   • bioText: Mickey Spillane is the legendary crime writer credited with igniting the explosion of paperback publishing after World War II as a result of the unprecedented success of his Mike Hammer novels, feeding the public's appetite for sexy, violent, straight-talking crime stories. He also starred as Mike Hammer in The Girl Hunters. Mickey Spillane died at the age of 88 in 2006.
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ON MICKEY SPILLANE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY - A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE MASTER
When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) Max Allan Collins to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's birth, his millions of fans will at last get to read THE LAST STAND, together with a second never-before-published work, this one from early in Spillane's career: the feverish crime novella A BULLET FOR SATISFACTION.
A tarnished former cop goes on a crusade to find a politician's killer and avoid the .45-caliber slug with his name on it. A pilot forced to make an emergency landing in the desert finds himself at the center of a struggle between FBI agents, unsavory fortune hunters, and members of the local Indian tribe to control a mysterious find that could mean wealth and power - or death. Two substantial new works filled with Spillane's muscular prose and the gorgeous women and two-fisted action the author was famous for, topped off by an introduction from Max Allan Collins describing the history of these lost manuscripts and his long relationship with the writer who was his mentor, his hero, and for much of the last century the bestselling author in the world.

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   • content: "THE LAST STAND may result in a radical re-evaluation of Spillane evolution as an author, especially for those who felt he had nothing more to offer than the primitive, hard-hitting stories of Mike Hammer. For this reason, as well as discovering these two works for the first time, THE LAST STAND is a valuable contribution to the Spillane canon and highly recommended to both Spillane’s longtime fans and those who know him solely as the creator of Mike Hammer. "
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     January 15, 2018
     At the start of this final novel by MWA Grand Master Spillane (1918–2006), prepared for publication by Spillane expert Max Allan Collins, pilot Joe Gillian makes a forced landing in his vintage plane somewhere in “John Wayne country.” Joe soon encounters Sequoia Pete, a Native American whose horse has tossed and deserted him. They join forces to trek the grueling 50 miles across the desert back to the rez, noshing on a rattlesnake along the way. When Joe happens upon an arrowhead made of an unknown substance, Pete identifies it as an ancient rarity. This find looms large as the plot expands to include FBI agents and ruthless gangsters. Once on the rez, they’re greeted by Pete’s beauteous sister, Running Fox. A lengthy build-up to the book’s action set piece—a mano-a-mano battle between Joe and Big Arms, an enormous brute who intends to obliterate him because he’s wooing Running Fox—has a satisfying payoff with a rather touching aftermath. More adventure yarn than mystery, this is a worthy coda to Spillane’s remarkable career in his centennial year.

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     January 15, 2018
     Legendary pulpmeister Spillane's final completed novel and a novella from half a century earlier are published for the first time to mark the centenary of the author's birth.In his Introduction, Max Allan Collins, the frequent collaborator of Spillane's later years, notes the bedrock importance of revenge to the author's most characteristic work. That's an acute observation about A Bullet for Satisfaction, presumably written in the early 1950s, in which Homicide Capt. Rod Dexter, kicked off both the investigation into political kingpin Mayes Rogers' murder and the Gantsville police force when he accuses District Attorney Frank Graham of being a rotten apple, goes into Mike Hammer mode, cleansing Gantsville by summary violence. But it's much less true of The Last Stand, a far less action-driven and even (gasp!) meditative tale in which pilot Joe Gillian, stranded in God's country when his ancient airplane conks out, bonds with Sequoia Pete and his Native American community over an arrowhead Joe's found that seems to be a source of limitless energy. His plane fixed by Pete's predictably beautiful sister, Running Fox, who just happens to have an engineering degree, Joe's about to return to what passes for civilization when he spots something from the air that makes him turn back and plunges him--well, dips him gently--into a tussle over the treasure sought for years by old Miner Moe. Not even the involvement of the FBI and Joe's conflict with Big Arms, a battler who correctly reads Joe as a rival for Running Fox's affections, can turn up the heat on this surprisingly tranquil valedictory.Spillane hot and cool, standard-issue and contemplative: a volume that bookends his storied career even more appropriately than the recent collection A Long Time Dead (2016).

     COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     February 1, 2018
     Longtime Spillane collaborator Max Allan Collins notes in his introduction that The Last Stand is the final manuscript completed by Spillane before his death in 2006. It's a hell of a way to wrap up a legendary writing career. Pilot Joe Gillian is forced to land his small plane in the middle of the desert. He's trying to figure out what to do when Pete, a Native American, turns up. After a bit of lively verbal fencing, each man getting a read on the other, they head off toward civilization. Along the way, Joe finds an arrowhead that Pete spots as very valuable. Joe is skeptical, but he changes his mind when others show up looking for the arrowheadsome of them not at all friendly about it. Though the book was written late in Spillane's life, it has a strong 1950s flavor, with sharp, quickly sketched characters and snappy dialogue typical of the author in his prime. As a bonus, the book includes a newly discovered, unfinished story from the 1950s, A Bullet for Satisfaction, which has been completed by Collins.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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ON MICKEY SPILLANE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY - A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE MASTER
When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) Max Allan Collins to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's birth, his millions of fans will at last get to read THE LAST STAND, together with a second never-before-published work, this one from early in Spillane's career: the feverish crime novella A BULLET FOR SATISFACTION.
A tarnished former cop goes on a crusade to find a politician's killer and avoid the .45-caliber slug with his name on it. A pilot forced to make an emergency landing in the desert finds himself at the center of a struggle between FBI agents, unsavory fortune hunters, and members of the local Indian tribe to...

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