Chicago Confidential
Max Allan Collins

New York Times-bestselling author Max Allan Collins seamlessly blends fact and fiction to re-create the twentieth century’s most notorious crimes. Now, in this spellbinding tale of suspense, detective Nathan Heller leaves behind the glamour of Hollywood for a wild ride in the Windy City....

Chicago, 1950—the target of America’s first-ever congressional inquiry into organized crime. Big trouble for anyone who knows where the bodies are buried, and Nate Heller has buried more than a few of them himself. He has no illusions about his civic duty—he prefers to stay alive and in business, mixing with the likes of starlet Jayne Mansfield and singer Frank Sinatra. But certain high-level gangsters, including Sam Giancana and the Fischetti brothers, aren’t so sure Heller will stay discreet.

After all, the private eye’s friend ex-cop Bill Drury is cooperating with the feds in a big way. And soon Heller finds himself at the center of a federal squeeze play, as Red-baiting senator Joe McCarthy weighs in with his own threats...and a strange hidden agenda. When Drury becomes the target of Syndicate assassins, and a troubled showgirl is sadistically victimized, Heller stands up against the mob—not in court, but with his own brand of rough justice.

Signet, May 2003
Featuring: Nathan Heller
256 pages ISBN: 0451208560
Paperback
$6.99

Also by Max Allan Collins:
Criminal Minds: Finishing School, November 2008
Criminal Minds: Killer Profile, May 2008
Strip For Murder, May 2008
Criminal Minds: Jump Cut, November 2007
A Killing in Comics, May 2007
The War Of The Worlds Murder, July 2005
The London Blitz Murders, May 2004

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