King of the Weeds

The Mike Hammer Series - Book 19

King of the Weeds

By Mickey Spillane, and Max Allan Collins
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“Mike Hammer is undeniably an icon of our culture.”

New York Times

In what Mickey Spillane had planned to be the final Mike Hammer novel, Hammer finds himself up against a clever serial killer targeting only cops.

A killer Mike Hammer's old friend Captain Pat Chambers had put away many years ago is suddenly freed on new, seemingly indisputable evidence, and Hammer wonders if this outwardly placid, very odd old man might somehow be engineering cop killings that all seem to be either accidental or by natural causes. At the same time, Hammer and Velda are dealing with the fallout—some of it mob, some of it federal government—over the $89 billion cache the detective is (rightly) suspected of finding not long ago.

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  1. Ninjacorn 9
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    Hammer Time, for the Last Time

    I love Mike Hammer novels. I love Stacy Keach’s gravelly yet sophisticated voice. I don’t like that this is perhaps the last Hammer audiobook ever. I’ve listened to all or most of them, and this is easily the best one yet, because it was started in the 90s by Spillane and continued by Max Collins. Collins, a literary ninja, is stealthily able to look at the series in its totality from a fresh distance, and because he’s not as close to the work as Spillane, is able to inject bits of emotion and cleverness that felt new to me as a major fan. In King of the Weeds, there is a sort of a heart-breaking sadness to everything being over soon—both in this series AND for Mike Hammer’s world. The subtly in which Collins lets Hammer mix it up in his final caper (funkier sex, dirtier fight scenes, funnier one-liners) seemed like a final homage to a hard-boiled world replaced by paperwork and political correctness. God I appreciated it. God I will miss it.

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