Skim Deep - by Max Allan Collins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>The first new Nolan novel in 33 years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of </b><b><i>Road to Perdition.</i></b></b> <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>This jaunty caper novel has a definite dark side--Nolan is no ersatz antihero--but Collins, as always, mixes blood and badinage with gusto. - Booklist <p/>The prolific Collins resurrects Nolan...for another adventure that will return him to the dark side...No doubt about it: It's great to see Nolan back in action. - Kirkus Reviews <p/>SKIM DEEP contains everything that aficionados of noir crime fiction love, including sex, violence, gunshots and double-crosses. - Bookreporter<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Max Allan Collins</b> 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, <i>True Detective </i>(1983) and <i>Stolen Away</i> (1991). In 2002, his graphic novel <i>Road to Perdition</i> was adapted into an Academy-Award winning film, starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law and Daniel Craig. He lives in Iowa, USA.
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