DEAD STREET

Mickey Spillane’s last book was written in his mid-80s. Retired NYPD cop Jack Stang learns that the love of his life, whom he has thought dead for the past 20 years, is really alive and in danger. The story is packed with good cops and bad, a gorgeous doll, street hoods, and mobsters. Tough-guy narrator Richard Ferrone finds DEAD STREET right up his alley. Ferrone seems to magnify Spillane’s words, presenting characters and circumstances in a pace, tone, and style uniquely fitting for each. Teaming up Spillane and Ferrone makes this Hard Case Crime novel a fitting tribute to the lifelong body of work by this bestselling author. T.J.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/ MAY 08]