True Crime Nathan Heller Series Book 2 (Audible Audio Edition) Max Allan Collins Dan John Miller Brilliance Audio Books
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1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded meanness 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.
True Crime Nathan Heller Series Book 2 (Audible Audio Edition) Max Allan Collins Dan John Miller Brilliance Audio Books
At first glance, the title of this may be deceiving, because “true crime” has come to have a very specific meaning. However, this is fiction, so in the strictest sense of the genre title, this is not “true crime”.However, in a broader sense, it is exactly that, on several levels, and it is a tightly written, action filled thriller with much to recommend it. If you enjoy historical fiction as I do, you will find this satisfying, because it is obviously well researched, not just in the main areas of consideration, but in small yet crucial details. I got the feeling, on more than one occasion, that I was watching an episode of the original “Untouchables”, even though this story takes place a few years after that series. The atmosphere is very true to life, and so well portrayed that the reader can almost hear the music, taste the food, and feel the heat of the sidewalk beneath his/her shoes. The World’s Fair is in full swing, and John Dillinger is on the loose …and everyone is hunting him.
So, while the book is fiction, it recounts, I suspect very accurately, things that happened in Chicago during the last part of the 1930s, just after the repeal of prohibition and just before the beginning of the Second World War. America is just starting to climb out of the Great Depression, and Chicago is run by a combination of corrupt politicians, more corrupt police, and mobsters. The FBI is a strong presence too, and their agents are finding it difficult to function in this often clandestine environment. Nate Heller is a free agent, though a former police officer (and an honest one, at that), and his conscience gets him into very serious trouble with just about everyone, all along the spectrum. He persists, though, and along the way we get to see, among other things, an inside view of the Barker Gang, Baby Face Nelson, and other infamous characters in new ways …not just icons of outlawry without personalities, but as human beings who, like all of us, are a mixture of traits.
I liked this book, because it is an excellent story well told, and well written.
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True Crime Nathan Heller Series Book 2 (Audible Audio Edition) Max Allan Collins Dan John Miller Brilliance Audio Books Reviews
A very fun read. I grew up in Chicago. The Biograph Theatre and alleyway was still there during my formative years. By the time I became aware of Capone and Dillinger and the other bad guys they had become almost mythical memories. It was enjoyable to read Max Collins fictional account of these hoods. I enjoyed all the not quite true depictions of mobster activity. A very good mix of violence and noir humor. Once I realized that this was fiction I was happy to go along for the ride. He did put in just enough slight details that made you wonder if some of those scenarios could have happened. Enjoyed most of it from start to finish. It got a little bogged down in the middle otherwise I would have given it 5 stars. But overall easy to read and follow.
True Crime was every bit as good as the first Nathan Heller book True Detective. In this opus Collins has Heller involved with the alleged shooting of John Dillinger at the Biograph theater in Chicago in 1935. Along the way he has more dealings with Frank Nitti and is involved in a complicated plot to kidnap J. Edgar Hoover by a gang of criminals that includes "Pretty Boy" Floyd, "Baby Face" Nelson and many others on the fledgling Investigation Division, the precursor to the FBI, Most Wanted List. Oh yeah, and for good measure he has an ongoing affair with Sally Rand.
Pretty good for a tribe crime book that was a little bit fiction and a little bit truth. Told me some things I didn't know about John Dillinger and made me want to find out more about how he died
This is the second book of the author's "Frank Nitti trilogy". "True Detective" was the first (I read that one about 2 weeks ago) and "True Crime" is the second in the trilogy.
To say the least, you need to get comfortable with the author's writing style (sort of weaving in and out of first and third person accounts). At that point (and it took me all the way the first book and about a third of the way with this book) did I decide to stay with the author. It took that long to really begin to enjoy the style and crave more. The writing style is "pulp fiction", and would be right in place in the style of detective magazines on the shelf in the 30's, 40's & 50's, with the difference being these are 400 page+ books, with encounters up the cazoo with many, many well know personalities of the Chicago gangster era.
In short, I will not bore you with anymore of my ramblings except to say that Nate Heller is an "everyman dreamer" and almost a constant "daydreamer". I've come to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe, the author is an expert at remembering an reducing to writing his teenage daydreams of being a cop, quitting to become a detective and dreaming about chasing, interacting with and helping capture the bad guys. Further, as a daydreaming adolescent, he also records those dreams of wanton sex not yet experienced.
Would I buy more of the author's books? Definitely and as a matter of fact, I have his "Chicago Lightning" sitting to my left at the moment and I have another (or two) of his books in my shopping cart.
I read a lot of American history (particularly Civil War era), but I also like fiction. I used to love Stephen King, but refuse to purchase anymore of his since he started to intersperse politics into his writings. I have ready EVERYTHING by Cormac McCarthy, John Grisham and Michael Connelly, just to name a few. As far as Collins goes, this is easy to read pulp fiction. I doubt if I will read everything his has written, but for the present time, his works are filling my reading lust very ably. Try him for a couple of books and I hope you also enjoy the stories!
At first glance, the title of this may be deceiving, because “true crime” has come to have a very specific meaning. However, this is fiction, so in the strictest sense of the genre title, this is not “true crime”.
However, in a broader sense, it is exactly that, on several levels, and it is a tightly written, action filled thriller with much to recommend it. If you enjoy historical fiction as I do, you will find this satisfying, because it is obviously well researched, not just in the main areas of consideration, but in small yet crucial details. I got the feeling, on more than one occasion, that I was watching an episode of the original “Untouchables”, even though this story takes place a few years after that series. The atmosphere is very true to life, and so well portrayed that the reader can almost hear the music, taste the food, and feel the heat of the sidewalk beneath his/her shoes. The World’s Fair is in full swing, and John Dillinger is on the loose …and everyone is hunting him.
So, while the book is fiction, it recounts, I suspect very accurately, things that happened in Chicago during the last part of the 1930s, just after the repeal of prohibition and just before the beginning of the Second World War. America is just starting to climb out of the Great Depression, and Chicago is run by a combination of corrupt politicians, more corrupt police, and mobsters. The FBI is a strong presence too, and their agents are finding it difficult to function in this often clandestine environment. Nate Heller is a free agent, though a former police officer (and an honest one, at that), and his conscience gets him into very serious trouble with just about everyone, all along the spectrum. He persists, though, and along the way we get to see, among other things, an inside view of the Barker Gang, Baby Face Nelson, and other infamous characters in new ways …not just icons of outlawry without personalities, but as human beings who, like all of us, are a mixture of traits.
I liked this book, because it is an excellent story well told, and well written.
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