Better Dead

Better Dead
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Publisher : Forge Books
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781466860780
ISBN-13 : 1466860782
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Better Dead by : Max Allan Collins

Download or read book Better Dead written by Max Allan Collins and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan Heller tangles with Joe McCarthy in Max Allan Collins's thrilling novel Better Dead: "Collins combines the historical and the hard-boiled thriller into a new genre-uniquely American, and uniquely his own."--Andrew Vacchss It's the early 1950's. Joe McCarthy is campaigning to rid America of the Red Menace. Nate Heller is doing legwork for the senator, though the Chicago detective is disheartened by McCarthy's witch-hunting tactics. He's made friends with a young staffer, Bobby Kennedy, while trading barbs with a potential enemy, the attorney Roy Cohn, who rubs Heller the wrong way. Not the least of which for successfully prosecuting the so-called Atomic Bomb spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. When famous mystery writer Dashiell Hammett comes to Heller representing a group of showbiz and literary leftists who are engaged in a last minute attempt to save the Rosenbergs, Heller decides to take on the case. Heller will have to play both sides to do this, and when McCarthy also tasks Heller to find out what the CIA has on him, Heller reluctantly agrees. His main lead is an army scientist working for the C.I.A. who admits to Heller that he's been having misgivings about the work he's doing and elliptically referring to the Cold War making World War II look like a tea party. And then the scientist goes missing. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Do No Harm

Do No Harm
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Publisher : Forge Books
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9781466860797
ISBN-13 : 1466860790
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Do No Harm by : Max Allan Collins

Download or read book Do No Harm written by Max Allan Collins and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do No Harm is the next mystery in the Nathan Heller series by New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins. It's 1954 and Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case—a young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally murdered. He claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife. But all the evidence points to a disturbed husband who has grown tired of married life and yearned to be free at all costs. Sheppard is swiftly convicted and sent to rot in prison. Just how firm was the evidence...and was it tampered with to fit a convenient narrative to settle scores and push political agendas? Nathan’s old friend Elliot Ness calls in a favor and as Nathan digs into the case he becomes convinced of Sheppard’s innocence. But Nate can’t prove it and has to let the case drop. The road to justice is sometimes a long one. Heller's given another chance years later and this time he's determined to free the man...even if it brings his own death a bit closer. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Bye Bye, Baby

Bye Bye, Baby
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 0765361469
ISBN-13 : 9780765361462
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Bye Bye, Baby by : Max Allan Collins

Download or read book Bye Bye, Baby written by Max Allan Collins and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1962, and Twentieth Century Fox is threatening to fire Marilyn Monroe. The blond goddess hires Nate Heller, private eye to the stars, to tap her phone so she will have a record of their calls in case they take her to court. When Heller starts listening, he uncovers far more than nasty conversations.

Seduction of the Innocent

Seduction of the Innocent
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Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9780857687494
ISBN-13 : 0857687492
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Seduction of the Innocent by : Max Allan Collins

Download or read book Seduction of the Innocent written by Max Allan Collins and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1954, and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books - especially the scary, gory, bloody sort published by the bad boys of the industry, EF Comics. But on the way to a Senate hearing on whether these depraved publications should be banned, the would-be censor meets a violent end of his own - leaving his opponents in hot water. Can Jack Starr, private eye to the funny-book industry, and his beautiful boss Maggie unravel the secret of Dr. Frederick's gruesome demise? Or will the crackdown come, falling like an executioner's axe...?

Heller: Too Many Bullets

Heller: Too Many Bullets
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Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781789099478
ISBN-13 : 1789099471
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Heller: Too Many Bullets by : Max Allan Collins

Download or read book Heller: Too Many Bullets written by Max Allan Collins and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed “True Crime” detective Nathan Heller, whose cases have sold more than 1 million copies, returns to uncover the secrets behind Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination in this brand-new novel from bestselling ROAD TO PERDITION author Max Allan Collins. In 1968, Nate Heller is there when Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel. Heller takes it upon himself to investigate the murder when a friend of his and Bobby’s raises doubts about the LAPD’s investigation. Heller strongly suspects the involvement of Jimmy Hoffa (currently imprisoned), but Hoffa seems to be in the clear as the private eye looks into the possible presence of CIA enemies of RFK’s on the murder night, the apparent manipulation of Sirhan Sirhan into a Manchurian Candidate-style assassin, and a probable second shooter.

True Detective

True Detective
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Publisher : Amazon Publishing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1612180884
ISBN-13 : 9781612180885
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Book Synopsis True Detective by : Max Allan Collins

Download or read book True Detective written by Max Allan Collins and published by Amazon Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the mob-choked Chicago of 1932, private detective Nathan Heller may be willing to risk his life to earn a Depression dollar, but he never sacrifices his sardonic wit ... When Mayor Cermak's 'Hoodlum Squad' brings Heller along on a raid with no instructions but to keep his mouth shut and his gun handy, he becomes an unwitting, unwilling part of a hit on Al Capone's successor, Frank Nitti. As a result, Heller quits the force to become a private eye. His first job: head off a nation-shaking political assassination in Miami Beach"--P. [4] of cover.

Skim Deep

Skim Deep
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Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9781789091403
ISBN-13 : 1789091403
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Skim Deep by : Max Allan Collins

Download or read book Skim Deep written by Max Allan Collins and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new Nolan novel in 33 years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition. The onetime world-class thief Nolan - now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub - whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots Nolan, whose past catches up with him when he's thought to be casing the joint. An old "friend" sees Nolan as the perfect patsy for a scheme to heist the weekly skim haul, and when the former thief's young frequent accomplice, Jon - a musician in the casino's house band - finds the couple mysteriously, suspiciously missing, it's up to Nolan's Best Man to keep wedding bells from tolling a funeral march.