 | From author Max Allan Collins' website http://www.maxallancollins.com/:
"Nate Heller is a cop trying to stay straight in one of the most corrupt places imaginable: Prohibition-era Chicago. When he won't sell out, he's forced to quit the force and become a private investigator.
His first client is Al Capone. His best friend is Eliot Ness.
His most important order of business is staying alive."
Hard-boiled detective Nathan Heller is my favorite fictional character. And no one, including Collins' inspiration, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, is more hard-boiled.
And Nate Heller solves real crimes in a fascinating twist on historical novels. Collins does not just set his character in a particular historical setting. He takes real characters and events from history, assembles all the facts known and weaves his fiction between those facts. You'll be hard pressed trying to separate the truth from the fiction when you read factual accounts of the events and characters portrayed in Collins' novels.
True Detective is the first in a series of 12 Nate Heller novels and two short story collections published to date. I highly recommend this series as well as his four Eliot Ness novels. |
True Detective by Max Allan Collins
