Max Allan Collins
& Nick Kolakowski Talk
About Mike Hammer’s
Unkillable Appeal
Over the course of his prolific, decades-long career, Max Allan Collins has crafted more than his share of original characters—if you haven’t tracked down a copy of Road to Perdition, the graphic novel he wrote with Richard Piers Rayner (later adapted into a movie starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman), you owe it to yourself to do so.
Collins is also notable for his collaboration with Mickey Spillane, who created the iconic detective Mike Hammer. Since Spillane’s death in 2006, Collins has taken over the writing of the Hammer books, including the latest, Masquerade for Murder, in which Hammer investigates a hit-and-run and a linked set of murders. Like the previous Hammer books, it features more than its shar
