- these days he's a best selling author but like many of us he started off as a voracious reader and fan of the pulp style fiction. Max's big thing was Mickey Spillane and he had the good fortune to meet Spillane and then become life long friends with him.During his latter years Spillane realised that he had work unfinished that would never be completed in his lifetime, and so he entrusted these works with Max Allan Collins.
Last year we had the excellent Goliath Bone which was the book Spillane was working on when he passed on - the manuscript was completed by Collins.
And available now is The Big Bang - Drawing on an unpublished partial Spillane manuscript dating from the '60s, Collins resurrects Spillane's two-fisted New York City PI, Mike Hammer. When Hammer intervenes to save a bike messenger from a mugging, two of the assailants wind up dead and a third in critical condition at Bellevue. After following up with the victim, the detective suspects the motive for the attack is more complicated than the police believe. The trail leads him to a recent player in the city's narcotics trade nicknamed the Snowbird. Along the way, Hammer becomes a target, possibly of a local mob boss, and falls into bed with one of the many attractive women he meets.
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