Target Lancer (Nathan Heller)

Collins, Max Allan

ISBN 10: 145582304X ISBN 13: 9781455823048

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2013

Synopsis

1963. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is a lightning rod for public opinion. The handsome, youthful leader, who is prepared to take America into a brighter future, earns love from cheering crowds. But those who oppose his political agenda including some who consider themselves betrayed by the Kennedy clan dare to think the unthinkable: kill an American president.Nathan Heller is Chicago s most celebrated private detective, hobnobbing with Hugh Hefner, getting written up in Life magazine, enjoying the fruits of a long career that began in a one-room office and now is a coast-to-coast agency. When he does a small favor for a friend who handles PR for the Teamsters Heller runs into an old West Side mob crony, a small-time hustler named Jack Ruby. And when that friend is found dead, warning signals start to flash.Suddenly Jimmy Hoffa wants to talk to Nate . . . and so does Hoffa s arch enemy, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Back in 61, Heller acted as the reluctant matchmaker in the ungodly marriage between the Mob and the CIA that created the ill-fated, JFK-sanctioned plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. Now JFK is coming to Chicago and Cuban assassins have been reported in the Windy City. RFK appoints Heller as a consultant to the local Secret Service, knowing that Nate understands why conspirators might well target the man code-named Lancer. It s a big job for a PI. But with a murder to avenge and a mystery to solve, Heller s up for the challenge.Rigorously researched, fleshing out a little-known but vital piece of the JFK assassination puzzle, Target Lancer is charged with the electric suspense of real events, and is far more truth than fiction.

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Review

Praise for "Target Lancer" ""Target Lancer" is a fresh treatment of the runup to the most significant single event of the twentieth century, and Nate Heller is the perfect protagonist to lead us through it. Max Allan Collins has hit a home run." --Mike Dennis""Target Lancer" may well reinvigorate the conspiracy theory arguments around the assassination of JFK. It's another winner for Max Allan Collins and his Nathan Heller series and an important historical novel about the Kennedy era." --Mystery Maven BlogPraise for Max Allan Collins, Nathan Heller mysteries, and "Bye Bye, Baby" "Max Allan Collins can lay claim to being the master of true-crime fiction...a seamless juxtaposition of narrative cunning and historical cross-referencing."--"Chicago Magazine" "The Nate Heller historical crime novels consistently mesmerize with their carefully researched period detail--Noir Meets the History Channel."--"Booklist," starred review "Collins turns real-life events into a cogent fictionalized mystery plot and real people into full-fleshed characters."--"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" "No one can twist you through a maze with the intensity and suspense of Max Allan Collins."--Clive Cussler, author of "Raise the Titanic""A whirlwind tour of the story surrounding Marilyn Monroe's untimely demise as it might have been covered in the garish pages of Confidential magazine, or by TMZ for that matter, with more grit than George Baxt's Hollywood mysteries." --Library Journal on "Bye Bye, Baby""Collins's twist on the American mystery simply can't be put down." --RT Book Reviews on "Bye Bye, Baby"

About the Author

MAX ALLAN COLLINS is the bestselling author of the graphic novel "Road to Perdition," the basis for the hit film starring Tom Hanks. He has won two Shamus Awards for previous Nathan Heller novels. His recent Heller mysteries include "Ask Not" and "Bye Bye, Baby." He lives in Muscatine, Iowa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 145582304X
• ISBN 13: 9781455823048
• Binding: Audio CD