Better Dead, Max Allan Collins
Better Dead, Max Allan Collins
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Better Dead

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 10 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/03/2016


Synopsis

It's the early 1950's. Ju 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 gus missing.

About Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller thrillers and the graphic novel Road to Perdition, basis of the Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks. His innovative Quarry novels led to a 2016 Cinemax series. He has completed a dozen posthumous Mickey Spillane mysteries, and wrote the syndicated Dick Tracy series for more than fifteen years. His one-man show, Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, was an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in Iowa.


Reviews

“…these days all anybody seems to know about the Rosenbergs is that they were guilty and really did deserve to die." Yep, that describes me to a great extent and that’s one reason why I enjoyed the research and plot of Collins’ 20th Nathan Heller thriller. [Heller to Joesph McCarthy] "Like you, Joe,......more

Goodreads review by Glen

Nathan Heller finds himself in murky circumstances when he goes to work for a committee headed by Dashiell Hammett to prove The Rosenbergs innocent, while at the same time working for Joe McCarthy to prove them guilty. Things keep getting murkier, when Heller encounters The CIA and the MK-Ultra prog......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Not the correct edition. I'm listening to an audio book edition. I haven't read any in this series before & this is #20, so I wasn't hoping for a whole lot. Collins can spin a good tale, though. The first few Quarry books were great & most of the rest pretty good, although the last one or two were j......more