'Something's Down There'

This holiday season, there's a special treat for fans of Mickey Spillane, the "Grand Master" of detective pulp fiction.

After a six-year hiatus, Spillane is back. He stopped by The Early Show to discuss his new book, "Something's Down There."

One of the world's best-selling authors, the 84-year-old Spillane has sold more than 140 million copies of his novels since he wrote his first thriller, "I the Jury," in 1947. He then introduced his most famous character and alter-ego, "the chain-smoking, quick-shooting private eye" Mike Hammer.

A native New Yorker (born in Brooklyn in 1918), Spillane is a former comic book writer, who was one of the originators of Captain Marvel and Captain America. Spillane is also a WWII Air Force veteran.

Spillane took a six-year hiatus before writing "Something's Down There." In the novel, fishing-boat captain Mako Hooker is a government operative taking a respite from his career in the States. But when local fishermen begin to become victims of a mysterious sea creature, Hooker goes into action to find the truth about the mysterious events.

Click here to read an excerpt from "Something's Down There."