Henry Carter Hull

With an introduction by Max Allan Collins: The first collection of stories starring legendary Mike Hammer, the toughest private investigator in history It starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he's crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform comes close to pushing him in front of a train. While any one of these could be a coincidence, together...

"An agent goes undercover in a militant group in this wild action-adventure tale from an Edgar Award finalist. Freelance operative Joe Gall has been asked to infiltrate the Republic of New Africa, a black militant group--not an easy assignment for a white guy. Using pills to change his skin tone, he goes undercover and joins the organization--with some unexpected results... "I admire Philip Atlee's writing tremendously." --Raymond Chandler "[Philip...

"An undercover operative heads to the island paradise of Tahiti to prevent a nuclear nightmare in this novel by "the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction" (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times ). Freelance agent Joe Gall is supposedly monitoring French atomic testing near the Pacific island of Tahiti. But that's just a cover. His real assignment: disrupt the budding relationship between De Gaulle and the Red Chinese. The plan is to kidnap one of...

"A hard-edged covert operative crosses into Mexico--and enters a dark, dangerous spiral--in this novel from "an able practitioner" of the thriller genre (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times ). A freelancer specializing in covert ops, Joe Gall has been tasked with doing a background check on a millionaire--a job that will take him into the wild and gritty world of 1960s Mexico. Unfortunately, the assignment has already come to a bad end for two different...

"With trouble brewing in Burma, it's time to call in the agent of last resort, in this thriller by "the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction" (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times ). In Washington, they call him the Nullifier--the man to hire when every diplomatic option has failed. Joe Gall is now on his way to Burma, where the government is at its wits' end trying to expel a nationalist Chinese general and his army. And if he needs backup, he...

"From the Edgar Award--nominated author: An agent for hire plays bodyguard to a titled beauty in Tenerife--and mixes partying with peril... Joe Gall, freelance operative, is assigned to protect a beautiful baroness under threat--and solve the mystery of who is after her. That means heading to the Canary Islands--and playing the part of a rich, hard-drinking American in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it... "[Philip...

A dozen murders and counting-and any one of them could lead a Chicago attorney to a hotheaded female tycoon. It's 11:59 p.m. on New Year's Eve and criminal lawyer John J. Malone is nursing his blues in a Chicago dive bar. He's been two-timed by his inamorata and abandoned by his favorite gumshoe partners, crime reporter Jake Justus and socialite Helene Brand, for their Bermuda honeymoon. But Malone's not lonely for long. Suddenly, a stranger staggers...

Two LAPD detectives are at odds over a horrifying case in this "taut shocker" of a novel by an Edgar Award-winning author ( The Boston Globe ). A pair of twins have been brutally murdered, and Los Angeles detectives George Cascade and Ed Fenner find themselves working a case with puzzling sexual overtones. When a young, intellectually disabled African American becomes the object of suspicion, tensions flare between the two officers -- and it will...

"The clock is ticking as a husband frantically tries to save his abducted wife in this fast-paced crime novel by "a real pro" ( The New York Times Book Review ). Twenty-five grand if he wants his wife back alive. That's the demand on the ransom note Lloyd Johnson found sitting in his typewriter. It has to be in unmarked bills -- and it has to be delivered in five days. To make it worse, the kidnapper dropped the names of his previous victims -- one...