The Goliath Bone

I read my first Mike Hammer novel when I was about 10, so after 40 years, it was fun reading this one. Congrats to Collins for finishing it up so well. It was typical of the others, possibly a little better done. Some of the obvious plot devices were a bit smoother & subtler. It's Mike Hammer, so ne......more

A tad disappointing in that this was the first Mike Hammer novel I have read and it didn't engage me in the characters, especially the offspring of two unlikely archaeologists. A bone belonging to Goliath of the old Testament is found in the desert something I just couldn't accept and so continuing......more

A modern day Mike Hammer closer to retirement age in a post 9/11 era is a vastly different Hammer to the earlier acclaimed works. Gone are the shysters and mobsters, in their place; terrorists and scheming consulate representatives. There is a distinct feel to 'The Goliath Bone' which segregates it......more

It left a bitter aftertaste in my mouth. A posthumous piece from the master of hard boiled detective fiction, an attempt to update this genre against the post 9/11 landscape falls flat disastrously. Seriously cliched, shamelessly xenophobic and inadequately researched, I only finished it for the fon......more