Mad Money

by Max Allan Collins

Overview

Nolan must rob every store in a mall in one night – or his girlfriend dies. Two Nolan novels from Grandmaster Max Allan Collins, collected in one volume for the first time.

Nolan and Jon have put their lives of crime behind them – but when a cruel adversary from their past resurfaces, they’re forced back into the heist game with a brutal ultimatum: pull off an insanely ambitious overnight robbery or Nolan’s kidnapped lover won’t live to see the morning.

Appearing in bookstores for the first time in 35 years, this is Nolan’s biggest and deadliest job – and Mad Money also features, for the first time ever in the same volume, the bonus full-length novel Mourn the Living, offering a look back at Nolan’s early years as a professional thief.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789091465
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	04/25/2023
Series:	Hard Case Crime
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	201,663
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Max Allan Collins was hailed in 2004 by Publisher's Weekly as "a new breed of writer." A frequent Mystery Writers of America nominee in both fiction and non-fiction categories, he has earned an unprecedented eighteen Private Eye Writers of America nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1991). In 2002, his graphic novel Road to Perdition was adapted into an Academy-Award winning film, starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law and Daniel Craig. He lives in Iowa, USA.

Editorial Reviews

A jewel from start to finish.” - Booklist

From the Publisher

2023-01-25
Hard Case Crime completes its cycle of Collins’ novels about not-quite-reformed thief Nolan with his first appearance and one of his last.

In Spree, the later, longer, and more polished of the pair, Nolan’s live-in lover, Sherry, is kidnapped to pressure him into masterminding a grandly scaled robbery of the most tempting targets among the 50 stores in Missouri’s Brady Eighty mall. Coleman Comfort, the paterfamilias behind the scheme, already has a grudge against Nolan for killing his brother Sam and Sam’s two sons in an earlier plot that went violently off the rails, and it seems obvious that as soon as the heist is history, he plans to kill Sherry and Nolan anyway. In fact, his homicidal plans are even more extensive than that, though not if Nolan and his frequent accomplice Jon Ross have anything to say about it. Mourn the Living, the first story Collins wrote about Nolan, though not the first he published, is an informal homage to Richard Stark’s adventures of one-named criminal Parker. Owing a big favor to mobbed-up pencil pusher Sid Tisor, Nolan reluctantly agrees to look into the death of Tisor’s daughter, Irene, a Chelsey University student who fell 10 stories to her death, even though it’s going to bring him uncomfortably close to Chicago’s Franco crime family, who’ve already put a $250,000 bounty on his head for his past misdeeds against them. Was Irene high on LSD? Was she actually pushed? What details have been covered up by Chelsey cop Phil Saunders, who’s the cousin of incompetent gang boss George Franco’s financial secretary Irwin Elliot, the real power behind Chelsey’s thriving drug industry?

Hard-case crimes with the bonus of a few surprising zingers.

Kirkus Reviews