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Main Author: Collins, Max Allan
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : William Morrow, 2004.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Veterans > Fiction.
Irish Americans > Fiction.
Organized crime > Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction.
Criminals > Fiction.
Adoptees > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Psychological fiction > Illinois.
Historical fiction > Illinois.
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Physical Description:288 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:0060540273 (acid-free paper)
Author Notes:Max Allen Collins was born in 1948 in Muscatine, Iowa. He is a two-time winner of the Private Eye Writer's of America's Shamus Award for his Nathaniel Heller historical thrillers "True Detective" and "Stolen Away". Collins also wrote the Dick Tracy comic strip begining in 1977 and ending in the early 1990s. He has contributed to a number of other comics, including Batman. Collins created his first independent feature film, Mommy, following a nightmarish experience as screenwriter on the cable movie The Expert.

Collins has been contracted by DC Comics to write three tie-ins to his critically acclaimed graphic novel "The Road to Perdition", which was adapted into the feature film. Author of other such move tie-in bestsellers as "In the Line of Fire" and "Air Force One", he is also the screenwriter/director of the cult favorite suspense films "Mommie" and "Mommie's Day".

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