Chicago Confidential, Max Allan Collins
Chicago Confidential, Max Allan Collins
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Chicago Confidential

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/10/2012

Synopsis

It’s 1950 in Chicago, P.I. Nate Heller’s old stomping grounds. But things are different now, and the wind is blowing in a different, decidedly more dangerous direction. Congressman-with-a-cause and presidential-hopeful Estes Kefauver creates the Committee on Organized Crime to put the squeeze on the mob—and anyone who ever associated with them. Heller tries to lay low, but when ex-cop Bill Drury cooperates and mafia moll Jackie Payne sings, Heller finds himself catapulted into the middle of the investigation.Quick wits and tough talk swirl in the middle of Kefauver’s senatorial charade as Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction to stunning results. When Drury is murdered and Jackie disappears, Heller decides it’s time for a little payback—and maybe some ice cold justice. With the mob and Kefauver’s crime committee hot on his trial, Heller mixes with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Jayne Mansfield, and Senator Joe McCarthy on a wild Windy City ride.

About Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins has earned fifteen Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective and Stolen Away, and receiving the PWA life achievement award, the Eye. His graphic novel, Road to Perdition, which is the basis of the Academy Award–winning film starring Tom Hanks, was followed by two novels, Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise. His suspense series include Quarry, Nolan, Mallory, and Eliot Ness, and his numerous comics credits include the syndicated Dick Tracy and his own Ms. Tree. He has written and directed four feature films and two documentaries. His other produced screenplays include “The Expert,” an HBO World Premiere. His coffee-table book The History of Mystery received nominations for every major mystery award and Men’s Adventure Magazines won the Anthony Award. Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins. They have collaborated on seven novels and numerous short stories, and are currently writing the “Trash ‘n’ Treasures” mysteries.

Reviews

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov on April 30, 2025

Don’t let any genre labels fool you. Max Allan Collins is a writer of historical fiction…that happens to often involve a private investigator named Nathan Heller. If historical fiction is about time and place, Collins is meticulous in doing his research and getting everything correct. Aside from tha......more

Goodreads review by Glen on December 29, 2022

Max Heller goes back to Chicago after meeting Jayne Mansfield. It seems an operative of his has gone off the rails, endangering the lives of everyone working for the firm with his vendetta against the mob. The Kefauver hearings are going on, and there's a lot of heat in Chicago. Eventually, there's s......more

Goodreads review by Johnny on January 31, 2018

Chicago Confidential isn’t the old expose’ on the “Outfit” from 1950. This is one of the Nathan Heller novels in which Max Allan Collins deftly dances on the fault-lines of history to present both the exposed crevices of authentic (though sometimes expedited via slight anachronisms for sake of the s......more

Goodreads review by Peter on February 14, 2010

Max Allan Collins and his Nathan Heller Books is assiduously documenting the crime history of the 30s and 40s. There are some terribly nice touches here in terms of wry comments and subtle connections. This departure from the world of Hollywood and politics takes us to the windy city and the atmosph......more

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