True Crime

by Max Allan Collins Narrated by Dan John Miller

Overview

1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded mean¬ness as private detective Nate Heller combs Chicago's North Side looking for John Dillinger. But things take a turn for the strange when self-aggrandizing G-Man Melvin Purvis shoots down a Dillinger double in front of the Biograph Theater.

Full of muscle and oozing Chicago's tough-guy persona to the hilt, Max Allan Collins' Nate Heller is the ultimate private investigator-in the ultimate P.I. town. Heller's undercover search for a farmer's-daughter-turned-gun-moll has him on the dusty Depression backroads of middle America, in the company of Ma Barker and her boys, Baby Face Nelson, Alvin Karpis, and a very-much-still-alive Dillinger-whose outlandish plan to kidnap J. Edgar Hoover in downtown Chicago is one Heller tries to foil. Including appearances by fan dancer Sally Rand, boxer Barney Ross, and Heller's “godfather,” Frank Nitti, True Crime is a relentless classic.

Editorial Reviews

NOVEMBER 2011 - AudioFile

The second of the three books in the Frank Nitti trilogy features tough-guy P.I. Nate Heller, a former cop with some tarnish on his shine, who has a heart along with all that testosterone. Dan John Miller's Chicago twang convincingly portrays the gritty, imperfect Heller. As the detective solves cases in gangster-filled Chicago of the 1930s, he encounters the likes of Ma Barker, Sally Rand, Baby Face Nelson, and J. Edgar Hoover. Collins weaves fascinating facts with fiction, and Miller creates a spell that convincingly transports one back to this fascinating era. A.C.P. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2011 - AudioFile

The second of the three books in the Frank Nitti trilogy features tough-guy P.I. Nate Heller, a former cop with some tarnish on his shine, who has a heart along with all that testosterone. Dan John Miller's Chicago twang convincingly portrays the gritty, imperfect Heller. As the detective solves cases in gangster-filled Chicago of the 1930s, he encounters the likes of Ma Barker, Sally Rand, Baby Face Nelson, and J. Edgar Hoover. Collins weaves fascinating facts with fiction, and Miller creates a spell that convincingly transports one back to this fascinating era. A.C.P. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171585174
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Series:	Nathan Heller Series , #2
Edition description:	Unabridged

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