He called her Red.* She called him in from the cold.* For one short moment in the big, hard city they were friends--and then the girl turned up dead.* Mike Hammer will walk through walls to find out who she was and why she died, even if he doesn't like the answers he gets.* Even if they are all about a seamy network of call-girls, blackmail, and hoods.* Hammer owes something to Red, and he plans to make good-because in this town a friend is hard to find.
Mickey Spillane has been hailed as "the most widely read writer in history."* His novels celebrate*a tradition of gut-wrenching action, gritty realism, and the best in fast-paced mystery.