The Menace: A Thriller

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In 2006, following her late husband’s instructions, Jane Spillane turned over the files of Mickey Spillane’s unfinished, unpublished materials to me. He had told her, “Max will know what to do.”

In the subsequent decade and a half I have completed twelve Mike Hammer novels, working from material ranging from a manuscript lacking only a few chapters to one-page synopses, as well as two non-Hammer novels and a number of short stories both with and without his famous private eye. I concentrated on Hammer as, obviously, Mike was Mickey’s signature character. Not coincidentally, this book is being published during the 75th anniversary of Mike Hammer’s first appearance in the novel I, the Jury (1947).

Toward that end I am including, as a back-of-the-book bonus feature of sorts, the newly discovered original version of the only full-length Mike Hammer short story Mickey ever wrote. More about that, later...

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