Mickey Spillane

Notorious hitman Quarry, star of the Cinemax series, comes out of retirement for one last assignment when a media mogul hires him to assassinate a beautiful younglibrarian? Twists and sexy surprises abound as Quarry delivers justice in his violent but principled fashion.QUARRYS BACK FOR HIS TOUGHEST JOB EVER.The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead?And why in hell does he care?On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassins first appearance, bestselling author Max Allan Collins brings him back for a dark and deadly mission where the last quarry may turn out to be Quarry himself.

Mike Hammer is a popular guy. At least with certain people. Several failed assassination attempts have got him riled, so apart from preventing the kidnapping of a famous New York socialite, hes hellbent on figuring out who wants him dead... someone whos desperate for the kill of his life.

Mike Hammer es un duro detective neoyorquino poco amigo de normas o disciplina, un prodigio de fuerza física y mental. En este libro se incluyen dos de sus novelas: La serpiente, donde debe proteger a una muchacha perseguida por dos asesinos sin escrupulos, y Un caso perverso, donde investigara el secuestro de un niño prodigio, hijo de un cientifico de reputacion internacional que se rodea de intrigantes familiares y personal sospechoso...Frank Morrison Spillane, mas conocido como Mickey Spillane (1918-2006), comenzo su carrera de escritor como guionista de comics, y por su pluma pasaron algunos de los mas famosos personajes del medio: Superman, Batman, el Capitan Marvel o el Capitan America. En 1945, escribio su primera novela, que completo en tan solo 19 dias, y de la que vendio seis millones y medio de copias solo en Estados Unidos. En ella presento su mas famosa creacion, el detective privado Mike Hammer, que entraria en la historia del genero negro por la puerta grande y del que escribio un total de 13 novelas. Ahora, ECC Ediciones presenta la coleccion Mike Hammer de Mickey Spillane, con nuevas y muy cuidadas traducciones.

"FRIEND, YOURE TALKING TO A GUY WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD AND THE POLICE AT HIS BACK"Compared to the $40 million the cops think he stole, seventy-five thousand may not sound like much. But its all the money in the world to the struggling Cuban exiles of Miami who rescued Morgan the Raider. So when its snatched by a man the Cubans trusted, Morgan sets out to get it back. A simple favor but as the bodies pile up...dead men and beautiful women.. .the Raider wonders what kind of Latin hell hes gotten himself into, and just who or what is the mysterious Consummata?Begun by mystery master MICKEY SPILLANE in the late 1960s and completed four decades later by his buddy MAX ALLAN COLLINS (Road to Perdition), The Consummata is the long-awaited follow-up to Spillanes bestseller The Delta Factor -- a breathtaking tale of treachery, sensuality, and violence, showcasing two giants of crime fiction at their pulse-pounding, two-fisted best.

Frank Morrison Spillane, más conocido como Mickey Spillane (1918-2006), comenzó su carrera de escritor como guionista de cómics, y por su pluma pasaron algunos de los más famosos personajes del medio: Superman, Batman, el Capitan Marvel o el Capitan America. En 1945, escribio su primera novela, que completo en tan solo 19 dias y de la que vendio seis millones y medio de copias solo en Estados Unidos. En ella presento su mas famosa creacion, el detective privado Mike Hammer, que entraria en la historia del genero negro por la puerta grande y del que escribio un total de 13 novelas. Ahora, ECC Ediciones presenta la coleccion Mike Hammer, de Mickey Spillane con nuevas y muy cuidadas traducciones.

Mike Hammer es un duro detective neoyorquino poco amigo de normas o disciplina, un prodigio de fuerza física y mental. En este libro se incluyen dos de sus más famosas historias: Bésame, moribunda y

From the New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins and the iconic master of noir Mickey Spillane comes the first book in the Mike Hammer series.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 ofwhat may have been the biblical giant Goliath. Hammer postpones his marriage to his faithful girlfriend, Velda, to fight a foe deadlier than the mobsters and KGB agents of his pastIslamic terrorists and Israeli extremists bent upon recovering the relic for their own agendas.

The toughest private eye in mystery fiction is back - it's the middle of the Swinging Sixties in midtown Manhattan Hammer, recuperating from a near fatal mix-up with the Mob, disturbs some drug dealers assaulting a young motorbike messenger who was transporting medicine for a hospital He saves the kid but the muggers are not so lucky The Mob and a new young breed of drug trafficker assume he will target them, and they target him right back, with a street-corner knife attack...

Taking a midnight stroll along the Hudson River, Mike Hammer gets more than he bargained for: a partial corpse on an ice floe. The body is that of a butler to a millionairealso now deceased. Were both master and servant murdered? Captain Pat Chambers thinks so. But to prove it Hammer must travel to upstate New York to investigate the dead mans family, all of whom have a motive for murder.

In Mickey Spillane''s classic private eye novels, the action exploded in a bone crunching catharsis. Men and women didn''t make love - they collided. Tough brutes used their fists to drive home a message. Tougher broads used guile. And no one''s morals were loftier than the gutter. No apologies. Little redemption. These novels rendered critics powerless, shocked intellectuals, inspired a new wave of pulp mayhem, and left the public hungry for more.

Hammer and Velda go on vacation to a small beach town on Long Island after wrapping up the Williams case (I, the Jury). Walking romantically along the broadwalk, they witness a brutal beating at the hands of some vicious local copsHammer wades in to defend the victim. When a woman turns up nakedand deadastride the statue of a horse in the small-town city park, how she wound up this unlikely Lady Godiva is just one of the mysteries Hammer feels compelled to solve...

THE FINAL CRIME NOVEL FROM THE KING OF PULP FICTION! For 20 years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriends death in an attempted abduction. But what if she didnt actually die? What if she somehow secretly survived, but lost her sight, her memory, and everything else she had...except her enemies? Now Jack has a second chance to save the only woman he ever loved - or to lose her for good.

Mike Hammers partner Velda has walked out on him, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then Pat Chambers reveals that Velda is in Florida, the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn. Hammer hits the road and drives to Miami. But can he find Velda in time? And what is the connection between a murdered vice cop in Manhattan, and Velda turning gun moll?