Max Allan Collins

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...

Michael O'Sullivan is a deeply religious family man who works as the chief enforcer for an Irish mob family. But after O'Sullivan's eldest son witnesses one of his father's hits, the godfather orders the death of his entire family. Barely surviving an encounter that takes his wife and youngest son, O'Sullivan and his only remaining child embark on a dark and violent mission of retribution against his former boss. Featuring accurate portrayals of Al...

Nathan Heller, star of MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins' most acclaimed series of novels (more than 1 million copies sold to date!), comes to Hard Case Crime for the first time in an all-new thriller drawn from the pages of history. A millionaire's son is kidnapped and private eye Heller is called in to help. But when half of the record $600,000 ransom goes missing, Heller must wade through a morass of deception and depravity to blow the lid off...

Do No Harm is the latest mystery in the Nathan Heller series by New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins. Its 1954 and Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case a young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally murdered. He claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife. But all the evidence points to a disturbed husband who has grown tired of married life and yearned to be free at all costs. Sheppard is swiftly convicted...

An all-new Mike Hammer story, developed from a never-before-seen 1950s screenplay by original creator Mickey Spillane, and written by Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Quarry).

These thrilling tales are set during the six-month period in which Michael O'Sullivan and his son were on the run. In Oaisis, Michael Jr. contracts a life-threatening illness, forcing him to hide out in an oasis of tranquility. The story continues in Sanctuary, as the O'Sullivans seek a hiding place from the vicious bounty hunters on their trail. And in Detour, Michael O'Sullivan is headed for a showdown with the murderous kingpin's heir whose history...

In Vietnam, Quarry and his spotter, Lance Corporal Roberts, were assigned to terminate a local torturer known as the Dragon Lady, but Quarry's bullet went wide, leaving her with a scar and her life. Now back home after the war, working as a professional hit man, Quarry receives his next assignment – and it's to terminate his old platoon-mate.

A bullet-riddled finale for the all-new Mike Hammer story!

In the spirit of Devil in the White City comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness' forgotten final case - his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run", a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the Great Depression and tormented Ness to his dying breath. "A careening read that’s full of surprises.... Collins and Schwartz deliver a nimble, taut tale. More importantly, they offer...

John Sand, the former MI6 agent upon whom a certain fictional spy was based, is keeping a secret from his new bride, Stacey – he has been tracking the supposedly dead Jake Lonestarr, her Texas oil tycoon father's traitorous business partner. When Stacey disappears, is Lonestarr or Las Vegas godfather Anthony Morello – a man with a big grudge - responsible? Or is it the shadowy figures at the new international spy agency that keep trying to recruit...