Max Allan Collins

Heist-man Nolan is enjoying his retirement from crime, running his own restaurant, when the president of a bank he robbed two years ago shows up with a blackmail demand. All Nolan has to do is rob the bank again--and play patsy to a sexy girl friend's murder scheme. Says the Atlanta Journal Constitution: "Collins has …

Someone is targeting crooked businessmen for death, and the Chicago Family turns to Nolan for help. Max Allan Collins's hard-boiled Nolan crime novels, steeped in Vietnam-era cynicism, are back in print with new Introductions by the author.

The original novel in Max Allan Collins's series about professional thief Nolan. The death of a friend's daughter leads Nolan to a small Illinois college town where the mob has murderous rivals in the drug trade. Says The Big Book of Noir: "There's nobody better at the American crime novel than Max Allan Collins."