Skim Deep, Max Allan Collins
Skim Deep, Max Allan Collins
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Skim Deep
A Nolan Novel

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 12/08/2020

Synopsis

The first new Nolan novel in thirty-three years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition.The onetime world-class thief Nolan—now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub—whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots Nolan, whose past catches up with him when he’s thought to be casing the joint. An old “friend” sees Nolan as the perfect patsy for a scheme to heist the weekly skim haul, and when the former thief’s young frequent accomplice, Jon—a musician in the casino’s house band—finds the couple mysteriously, suspiciously missing, it’s up to Nolan’s Best Man to keep wedding bells from tolling a funeral march.

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.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom gained international fame in 1951 with her screen debut in Charles Chaplin???s motion picture Limelight. Among her many memorable films are Richard III, The Haunting, Look Back in Anger, and A Doll???s House.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFile’s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card’s Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, "Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take." Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glen on June 27, 2022

This is supposedly the last book in the Nolan series, but every series has one more book in it, right? Nolan's gone straight, and decides to get married to his girlfriend in Vegas. They stay at a mob owned hotel, and meet up with Jon who is trying to buy a comic book store. They get mixed up in a hot......more

Goodreads review by Josh on September 26, 2021

It’s been a while since I read a Nolan book; the best way to describe the character is a blend of Parker and Quarry - a whole lot of hard man with a penchant for trouble. In Skim Deep, the action takes a while to get going but when it does it comes thick and fast - an adrenaline shot of uncut noir.......more

Goodreads review by Craig on February 26, 2021

Nolan's wedding in Vegas is off to a rocky start. First, the security team at the Bourbon Street Hotel & Casino beats him up (an apparent case of mistaken identity). Then, he and his bride get kidnapped at gunpoint (a prelude to a set-up). There's also a would-be assassin holed up in Nolan's home in......more

Goodreads review by David on January 25, 2021

Pretty good; very pulp-y or neo-pulp because it’s a bit too descriptive (especially the start) for pulp; 3.5 stars. Nolan, the reformed thief, gets married in Vegas and immediately gets blindsided by a pretty desperate scheme to steal from a casino using Nolan as the fall guy. Meanwhile, back home t......more

Goodreads review by Bookreporter.com on January 10, 2021

I can think of few better ways to usher in a year than cracking the binding on a new book by Max Allan Collins. SKIM DEEP is the latest installment in his long-running Nolan series --- the first in over three decades --- and is one of his best novels ever. Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Gran......more

Quotes

“No one can twist you through a maze with as much intensity and suspense as Max Allan Collins.” Clive Cussler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, praise for the author

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