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Lady, Go Die!: A Mike Hammer Novel Audiobook
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“The next time you pull a gun on me I put one between your eyes.”
Private investigator Mike Hammer and the beautiful Velda go on vacation to a small beach town on Long Island after wrapping up the Williams case from I, the Jury. Walking along the boardwalk, they witness a brutal beating at the hands of some vicious local cops—and Hammer wades in to defend the victim.
When a woman turns up naked—and dead—astride the statue of a horse in the town’s park, how she wound up this unlikely Lady Godiva is just one of the mysteries Hammer feels compelled to solve.
This is Mickey Spillane’s lost, never-before-published 1940s Mike Hammer novel, written between I, the Jury and My Gun Is Quick. Completed by Spillane’s friend and literary executor Max Allan Collins, Lady, Go Die! is finally making its way out into the world almost seventy years after its inception.
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"I'm really in love with these Mickey Spillane/Max Allan Collins team ups. This book kept me reading, and everyone once in a while I'd get a step ahead of it, but it didn't matter because it's written just so damn well."
— Bryan (5 out of 5 stars)
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“A clever, fast-moving plot drives Collins’ gritty fifth posthumous collaboration with MWA Grand Master Spillane…Once again, Collins displays his mastery of Spillane’s distinctive two-fisted prose.”
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“Before he died, in 2006, we’re told, Spillane bequeathed his papers to Collins, saying, ‘He’ll know what to do.’ Collins has been industriously finishing unpublished Spillane books ever since…Collins knows the pistol-packing PI inside and out, and Hammer’s vigilante rage (and gruff way with the ladies) reads authentically.”
— Booklist
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Finalist for the Scribe Award for Best Original Novel
Lady, Go Die! Listener Reviews
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" Very well written mob type book. Ending was a little predictable but characters were interesting. "
— Alie, 11/22/2013 -
" All these years later, Mike Hammer still causes me to shout out the word "damn" several times, very loud. Great story. Really awesome. I'm so glad Max Allan Collins is keeping Hammer swingin'. "
— Andy, 10/9/2013 -
" Enjoyble read. Fun game to figure out which words were Spillane's and which were Collins. "
— Dave, 11/30/2012 -
" A bit flowery at times, but in the Hammer tradition and eminently readable. "
— Jack, 11/23/2012
About the Authors
Mickey Spillane (1918–2006) was one of the most popular authors of all time, with millions of copies of his books in print worldwide. He introduced Mike Hammer to readers in 1947 with I, the Jury. He was named a Grand Master in 1995 by the Mystery Writers of America.
Max Allan Collins is the author of Road to Perdition, the acclaimed graphic novel that inspired the movie, and of the multiple-award-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries. One of most prolific and popular authors working in the field today, he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2017. He is also the literary executor of Mickey Spillane.
About Stacy Keach
Stacy Keach is perhaps best known for his portrayal of hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer. He played Ken Titus on the sitcom Titus, Warden Henry Pope in the hit series Prison Break, and has been seen in numerous film and stage productions. He won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Ernest Hemingway and starred as Richard Nixon in the US National Tour of Frost/Nixon. His performance in the title role of King Lear has received international acclaim.