The Big Bang: A Mike Hammer Novel

The toughest private eye in mystery fiction is back - it's the middle of the Swinging Sixties in midtown Manhattan. Hammer, recuperating from a near fatal incident with the Mob, intervenes when he witnesses drug dealers assaulting a young motorbike messenger transporting medicine for a hospital. He saves the kid, and the muggers get their due. The Mob and a new breed of drug traffickers believe Hammer will target them, and they retaliate with a street-corner knife attack. Hammer and his partner Velda take on the drug racket in New York, navigating a world of discos, upscale apartments, and dark alleys, dealing with doctors, addicts, and hitmen, embodying his trademark violence and vengeance.