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The Goliath Bone
First edition cover
Author	Mickey Spillane with Max Allan Collins
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date	October 13, 2008
ISBN	978-0-15-101454-5

The Goliath Bone is the 14th entry in the Mike Hammer series by American crime novelist Mickey Spillane, first published on October 13, 2008.^[1]^[2]^[3] Spillane died in 2006, so the novel completed by Max Allan Collins. 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".

In the novel, Mike Hammer marries Velda Sterling at City Hall.^[4]

References

^ "The Goliath Bone". Kirkus Reviews. August 15, 2008. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
^ "The Goliath Bone". Booklist. September 1, 2008. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
^ "The Goliath Bone by Mickey Spillane". Publishers Weekly. August 25, 2008. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
^ 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)

v t e 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	Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958–1960) Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984–1985) episodes The New Mike Hammer (1986–1987) Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997–1998)

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