The Legend of Caleb York

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It’s been my honor and pleasure, over the past several years, to complete a number of suspense novels begun by Mickey Spillane, the most famous and popular American mystery novelist of the twentieth century.

I began, as so many did, as Mickey’s fan. Over the years, as I became a professional fiction writer myself, we became friends and at times collaborators. Shortly before his death in 2006, Mickey asked me to complete the Mike Hammer novel he was working on (The Goliath Bone, 2008), should he not be able to. Around the same time, he instructed his wife Jane to conduct “a treasure hunt” after his passing, and to gather any other unpublished material of his and turn it over to me — “Max will know what to do.” I can imagine no greater honor.

After completing The Goliath Bone, my first order of business was five novels featuring Mickey’s signature character, tough detective Mike Hammer, that Mickey had set aside, as well as two other non-Hammer suspense novels. These were substantial manuscripts of one hundred pages or more, often with plot and character notes. Currently I am developing Hammer novels from shorter but still significant unfinished works in Mickey’s files.

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