Mickey Spillane

Nine years after the events of Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation, this time on Long Island to help look after his partner Velda Sterling's seventeen-year-old sibling, Mikki. Mikki must deal with the attention of two boys vying for her affection. When Mikki gets hooked on heroin, Hammer goes on a rampage. He will find those behind the drug racket and teach them what shooting up is all about.

Mike Hammer steals a ride on a train upstate to Killington. But he is welcomed by a nasty surprise: he is accused by police of raping and murdering a young woman near the freight yards. Roughed up by the cops and facing a murder charge, Hammer's future looks bleak. Only a beautiful blonde, Melba Charles--daughter of powerful Senator Charles--might possibly save him...if he pays the price. But why would Melba help save a man she has never met? And,...