Kiss Her Goodbye
A Mike Hammer Novel

Mike Hammer has been away from New York too long.Recuperating in Florida after the mob shootout that nearly claimed his life,he learns that an old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide. Hammer returns for the funeraland because he knows that Inspector Doolan would never have killed himself. ButManhattanin the seventies no longer feels like home.Hammers longtime partner, Velda, disappeared after he broke it off for her own safety, and his office is shut down. When a woman is murdered practically on the funerals doorstep,Hammer is drawn into the hunt fora cache of Nazi diamondsthatmakes the Maltese Falcon seem like a knickknack and for the mysterious woman who had been close to Doolan in his final days. But drug racketeers, who had it in for Doolan, attract Hammers attention as well. Soon he is hobnobbing with cokesnorting celebrities at the notorious disco, Club 52, and playing footsie with a sleek lady DA., a modern woman on the make for oldfashioned Hammer. Everything leads to a Mafia social club where Hammer and his .45 come calling, initiating the wildest showdown since Spillanes classic One Lonely Night.