The Goliath Bone

First edition
(publ. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The Goliath Bone is the 14th entry in the Mike Hammer series by Mickey Spillane. It was completed by Max Allan Collins, and was first published on October 13, 2008. The Goliath Bone is one of three almost finished Mike Hammer novels that Spillane entrusted Collins to finish before his death in 2006.

Plot

Hammer is forced to put off retirement and his marriage to his longtime love and secretary, Velda, after he falls into the middle of an international crisis. Hammer saves a couple of archaeologists from unknown muggers in New York, who turn out to be Al Qaeda agents who believe they possess a thigh bone of the Biblical character Goliath. Hammer now finds himself going against Islamic terrorists, including a 7-foot agent code named "Goliath".

Note

Several pages into Chapter 11 of 12, Mike Hammer marries Velda Sterling at City Hall.[1]

References

  1. ^ Spillane, Mickey (2008). The Goliath Bone. 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando Florida 32887-6777: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-15-101454-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Novels
  • I, the Jury (1947)
  • My Gun Is Quick (1950)
  • Vengeance Is Mine (1950)
  • One Lonely Night (1951)
  • The Big Kill (1951)
  • Kiss Me, Deadly (1952)
  • The Girl Hunters (1962)
  • The Snake (1964)
  • The Twisted Thing (1966)
  • The Body Lovers (1967)
  • Survival... Zero! (1970)
  • The Killing Man (1989)
  • Black Alley (1996)
  • The Goliath Bone (2008)
  • The Big Bang (2010)
  • Kiss Her Goodbye (2011)
  • Lady, Go Die! (2012)
  • Complex 90 (2013)
  • King of the Weeds (2014)
  • Kill Me, Darling (2015)
  • Murder Never Knocks (2016)
  • The Will To Kill (2017)
  • Killing Town (2018)
  • Murder, My Love (2019)
  • Masquerade for Murder (2020)
  • Kill Me If You Can (2022)
  • Dig Two Graves (2023)
  • Baby, It's Murder (2024)
Films
  • I, the Jury (1953)
  • Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
  • My Gun Is Quick (1957)
  • The Girl Hunters (1963)
  • Margin for Murder (TV, 1981)
  • I, the Jury (1982)
  • Murder Me, Murder You (TV, 1983)
  • More Than Murder (TV, 1984)
  • The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (TV, 1986)
  • Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (TV, 1989)
  • Come Die with Me (TV, 1994)
  • Mike Hammer: Song Bird (V, 2003)
Television
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