Very disappointed with this--I know it is set in older times, lots of smoking, drinking and no cell phones BUT it just seemed every page was filled with descriptions galore and no enough 'story', it describes every Miami scene you can imagine, the sun, the beach, the house, the clubs, swimming pools, and everything they wear and I mean everything. For the story? I didn't think much of it at all, I used to read Mike Hammer back in the 60's but it's lost interest in 'modern' times compared now to the authors that do suspense/thriller and this one doesn't have that.
Mike Hammer?s secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then the murder of an old cop who worked with Velda when she was on the NYPD Vice Squad attracts Hammer?s attention. What?s more, Pat Chambers reveals that Velda is in Florida, the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn.
Hammer hits the road and drives to Miami, where he enlists the help of a newspaperman and a police detective. But can they find Velda in time? And what is the connection between the murdered vice cop in Manhattan, and Velda turning gun moll in Miami?
Hammer hits the road and drives to Miami, where he enlists the help of a newspaperman and a police detective. But can they find Velda in time? And what is the connection between the murdered vice cop in Manhattan, and Velda turning gun moll in Miami?
