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A FAMILY AFFAIRJust when Nolan's looking for a way out of his dead-end job, trouble comes knocking, and he's back in business. Someone harboring an old grudge has just picked off Joey DiPreta, a crooked businessman with ties to the mob, and the guy's family is out to get whoever's responsible. So is Nolan's family-in Chicago-and they offer him big bucks and a piece of a swank hotel if he'll protect their interests.Only this time Nolan's gotten into...
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer volume 2
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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).
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Mike Hammer, the toughest PI of all, draws a seemingly routine assignment—playing bodyguard to diva Rita Vance on the eve of her big Broadway comeback. But Rita is an old flame of Hammer's, and when their romance is rekindled, the detective finds the actress facing death threats and himself the target of one hit man after another. When the actress disappears, the show must go on, which with Mike Hammer means swift, violent retaliation. While the...
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Winner of the 2011 Audie® Award for Best Original Work Private eye Mike Hammer is no stranger to murder, but this time he has two to untangle: the killing of the Captain, a legless, homeless panhandler, dismissed by the police as “minor,” and the slaying of gambling kingpin Marty Wellman. Marty's lady friend, Helen Venn, turns to the P.I. for help when the Mob fingers her for the next kill. Seems the new kingpin, Carmen Rich—with whom Hammer...
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From the minds of Road to Perdition author Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty comes another astounding collection of Ms. Tree comics featuring four classic crime cases, plus two bonus short stories.
Follow Ms. Michael Tree, the 6ft, 9mm-carrying private eye, through her thrilling casebook as she races to solve crimes of passion, murder, and intrigue! No case is too small, no violence is too extreme - just as long as it gets the job done....
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Her business is deadly and always ends with a smoking gun!
From write Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Quarry, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer) and artist Terry Beatty (Return to Perdition, The Phantom Batman: Gotham Adventures) comes the second volume of the tough-as-nails private eye and her run-ins with love, deceit and the stench of gunpowder.
The iconic crime fiction heroine is back. Ms. Tree remains the longest running private-eye comic...
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A new chapter in the saga of the O'Sullivan crime family from the acclaimed movie Road To Perdition. The time is America in the early 1970s and our third-generation hero, Michael Satariano, Jr. is a Vietnam vet recently returned to the States. He doesn't know that his father's real name was Michael O'Sullivan, and is unaware of the conflict between his dad, his grandfather and John Looney – the criminal godfather of Rock Island, Illinois. But when...
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Road to Perdition volume 1
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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...
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Fancy Anders goes undercover at an aircraft plant to solve the murder of Rosie the Riveter in the first of three thrilling mysteries by Road to Perdition creator Max Allan Collins.
Fall 1942. When her Hollywood private detective daddy is called back to uniform, Fancy Anders is issued orders of her own-answer the phone, make referrals, and keep the place dusted. But the twenty-four-year-old Barnard grad-whose hobbies include shooting, flying, and...
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Fancy Anders returns in Fancy Anders for the Boys, the second of three thrilling mysteries by Road to Perdition creator Max Allan Collins.
Hollywood, 1942. Hedonistic socialite turned undercover detective and poster girl for the war effort, Fancy Anders is back to solve another case. The Hollywood Canteen has just opened as a refuge and nightclub to give enlisted men some nights they will never forget as they prepare to head into war. With Hollywood...
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Quarry's War volume 1
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Written by renowned comic writer and author of the Quarry Hard Case Crime novels, Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Batman, Action Comics Weekly) and illustrated by Szymon Kudranski (Batman: Streets of Gotham, Spider-Man, Spawn). Former U.S. Marine sniper Quarry has found a new vocation as a professional assassin. But when his latest contract turns out to be an old acquaintance from his military days, the fresh-faced hit man finds himself battling...
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Quarry's War volume 3
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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.
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Inspired by the timeless westerns of John Wayne and the hardboiled heroes of classic crime fiction, bestselling legends Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins turn up the heat on their tin-star tough guy Caleb York-in a gun-blazing showdown with two women ranchers calling the shots... It starts with an abusive, drunken young scoundrel who resists arrest, holds a barmaid hostage, and gets what he deserves from the blazing .44 of Sheriff Caleb York....
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Road to Perdition volume 2
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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...
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer volume 3
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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).
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Quarry's War volume 2
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Three years from returning from his lost tour of duty in Vietnam, the former Marine sniper known only as Quarry has learned that killing for money back home isn't so different from killing Uncle Sam – just better paid. And with different sorts of collateral damage…
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer volume 1
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An all-new Mike Hammer story, from a plot by original creator Mickey Spillane, written by Max Allan Collins ('Quarry,' 'Road to Perdition'). When a chance encounter with a captivating femme fatale leads to a violent mob retaliation, hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer finds himself dodging both bullets and broads as he undertakes the most dangerous case of his career.
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer volume 4
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A bullet-riddled finale for the all-new Mike Hammer story!
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Quarry's War volume 4
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In Vietnam, Quarry and his spotter, Roberts, teamed up to take out enemies like the notorious torturer known as the Dragon Lady. But back home three years after the war, it's Roberts – now involved with drug trafficking – that Quarry might have to take out.
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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...