Bøger af Max Allan Collins

Pulp crime fiction is at its best in this Mike Hammer novel that sees the hard-boiled private eye unpack a scandal involving a US Senator and his femme fatale of a wife>But when the suspects begin to drop like flies, Hammer realizes there is more to this case than just a salacious tape.

First there was Max Allan Collins' legendary graphic novel...then came the Academy Award winning movie and his bestselling screenplay novelization. Now Collins presents an epic new novel, combining and expanding upon all that came before, to create the ultimate version of his unforgettable story.

Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp straps on his six-shooter to battle a new breed of bad man in a new land -- rising gangster Al Capone and his machine-gun toting killers on the streets of New York City.It's the 1920s, the glittering jazz age, and the beginning of the blood-soaked prohibition-era. The wild west and the gunfight at the OK Corral are fading memories, even for aging lawman Wyatt Earp, who is toiling in Los Angeles as a private eye and a technical consultant on cowboy movies. When Doc Holliday's son, who is running a glitzy nightclub in Manhattan, is targeted by the mob, Wyatt gladly leaves the tamed west for the wild east to defend him, pitting himself against a brutal, young gangster named Al Capone"Wyatt Earp versus Al Capone - a wild, exciting ride." David Morrell, author of FIRST BLOOD"Highly entertaining....Collins has outdone himself in this tale of bad guys, bullets, and booze set at the start of the Prohibition era." Library Journal"Wyatt Earp vs. Al Capone - it might seem an improbable situation, but it could have happened, and Collins makes it work in this wild blend of classic Western and gangster characters, all set in Prohibition-era New York City" Philadelphia Inquirer

The brilliant sequel to Road to Perdition, Max Allan Collins' masterpiece of crime fiction that became both a literary and cinematic classic.Twenty-two year-old Michael O'Sullivan returns from the second World War with a medal of honor, a glass eye, and the violent skills necessary to avenge his family, who were gunned down by the Chicago mob when he was a child. O'Sullivan becomes mobster Frank Nitti's trusted chauffer...and an undercover operative for federal agent Eliot Ness...but even as he seeks revenge, he finds himself being seduced by the criminal underworld that he loathes."PURGATORY succeeds in putting us inside the head of an honorable man descending into a hell of his own creation." Entertainment Weekly"An explosive, action-packed blockbuster, destined to rank right up there with THE GODFATHER series when all is said and done." Detroit Free Press"A cordite-drenched Shakespearean tragedy." Kirkus Reviews

Chicago, 1970, and expert marksman and Vietnam vet, Quarry receives the details of his latest target from The Broker. It's an assignment that will see his past as a U.S Marine sniper come back to confront him as his current and former lives collide.

While undercover in upstate New York, Hammer is accused by police of murdering a young woman near the freight yards. Roughed up by the cops and facing a murder charge, Hammer's fate is looking bleak until a beautiful blonde, Melba Charles, daughter of the influential Vernon Charles, gives him an unexpected alibi.

There's Nothing More Dangerous Than a Loaded Magazine Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. And evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max's career permanently. Only another hit man - the ruthless professional known as Quarry, star of the acclaimed series on Cinemax - can keep Climer from becoming a casualty in the Sexual Revolution.

Taking a midnight stroll along the Hudson River, Mike Hammer gets more than he bargained for: a partial corpse on an ice floe. The body is that of a butler who spent the last years of his life working for a millionaire-also now deceased-and his notoriously privileged children.

With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is given a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate.

Quarry's plan to target other hitmen for elimination hits a snag when he comes up against a deadly female assassin.

A rival sets out to take over the killing-for-hire business, and Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs.

When a murder-for-pay assignment goes horribly wrong, Quarry sets out to find out who hired him - and take revenge.

Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent South to remove a traitor in the ranks. But in this wide-open city - with sin everywhere, and betrayal around every corner - Quarry must make the most dangerous choice of his deadly career: who to kill?

Happily retired, Quarry turns down a million dollars to asassinate a presidential candidate. But it's not the sort of job you can just walk away from...

It's not unusual to see bodies on the set of an adult film, but when they're dead bodies, Quarry has his work cut out for him.

Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his clients of two services: eliminating the assassins, and finding out who hired them... and then removing that problem as well. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Is this the right quarry?

When two Godfathers set out to bump each other off, guess who winds up with both contracts. This title presents a tale of warring crime families.

Presents a story of Quarry's first job: infiltrating a college campus and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sins.

Contemporary / American English Saving Private Ryan - one of the greatest war films ever made! Steven Spielberg - Academy Award (R) winner for Best Director! It's June 9 1944, three days after D-Day. On the orders of the government, Captain John Miller and his men go to look for Private James Ryan. They must bring him home. But how many will survive the mission?

Dr. Temperance Brennan, a highly skilled forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones.

Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned from Vietnam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. When he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too.