I don't give a damn about reviews. What I like to read are royalty checks. - Mickey Spillane

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

They had left him for dead in the middle of a pool of blood in his own bedroom, his belly slit open like gaping barn doors, the hilt of the 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 was no reason."

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.