According to USA Today, the author Mickey Spillane had called his author pal Max Allan Collins, asking him if he would finish his novel.
This happened before Spillane’s death 2 years ago, and the novel is titled “The Goliath Bone.”
USA Today describes the book as: “based on Spillane's rough draft, goes on sale Monday, 61 years after Hammer, the iconic hard-boiled private eye, solved his first case in I, the Jury. It will be the 14th Hammer novel.”
The product description notes:
“The bestselling American mystery writer of all time brings back his world-famous PI Mike Hammer for his biggest—and most dangerous—case.
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 of what may have been the biblical giant Goliath.
Hammer postpones his marriage to his faithful girl Friday, Velda, to fight a foe deadlier than the mobsters and KGB agents of his past—Islamic terrorists and Israeli
Click here for the USA Today review.
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