In Near Fine condition in glossy pictorial wraps, (mmpb). 160pps. First Signet printing, April 1971. There is very light rubbing to the wraps and a small remnant of a price sticker on the inside of the front cover. Otherwise clean, tight, squrare, and bright. The pages are immaculate; absolutely no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. SIGNED and inscribed by the author in black marker to the original owner on the inside of the front wrap.

"...'They had left him for dead in a pool of blood in his own bedroom, his belly slit open like gaping barn doors, the hilt of a knife wedged against his sternum. But the only trouble was that he had stayed alive somehow, his life pumping out, managing to knock the telephone off the little table and dial me. Now he was looking up at me with seconds left and all he could do was force out the words, Mike there wasn't no reason.'
But that was the reason that Mike Hammer had to find the murderer. For who would want to kill a nobody like Lippy Sullivan and why?
Before Mike finds out the answers, he is running interference for the CIA, and he learns more than is good for him about germ warfare, the TV industry, and a certain blonde with eyelashes painted around her navel..."

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MICKEY SPILLANE SURVIVAL ZERO FIRST EDITIONS SIGNED MYSTERY CRIME THRILLER SUSPENSE MURDER HOMICIDE CRIME THRILLER SUSPENSE DETECTIVES PRIVATE EYES MIKE HAMMER NOIR HARDBOILED FICTION NEW YORK