The Last Stand - Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins

Written by Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
Read by Dan John Miller
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Hard Case Crime, #133
Length: 7 hours
Publisher: Journal Stone Publishing Audio
Released: Jan 1, 2019

Max Allan Collins-intro

ON MICKEY SPILLANE’S 100TH BIRTHDAY— 2018

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. 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 Bullet for Satisfaction is a real early entry from Spillane that is hard core noir with the lead role getting the women & the killer. “This story is similar in tone and form to the early Mike Hammer novels. iIt is the story of a lone police officer investigating the murder of a local politician. He quickly finds himself fighting a corrupt city hall, bouncing the sheets with two femme fatales, and rushing headlong into shootouts with numerous mobster hit men. In the introduction, Collins said he needed to rewrite some scenes, which is why he added his name to the byline.”

In The Last Stand….
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, An introduction from Max Allan Collins describs 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.

Critic agreed that A Bullet for Satisfaction is the better of the two, more the Spillane they remembered.

Note…The recording has A Bullet for Satisfaction first. I have made it a stand-alone and given The Last Stand the Opening, Introduction and Credits.