Skim Deep
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The first new Nolan novel in 33 years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition.
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
MWA Grand Master Collins's disappointing ninth crime novel featuring professional thief Frank Nolan picks up six months after the events of 1987's Spree. Now retired, Nolan is enjoying running his supper club in Moline, Iowa, a far cry from his days tangling with the Chicago mafia. To further his efforts toward respectability, Nolan and Sherry, his decades-younger girlfriend, abruptly elope to Vegas to be married in the casino hotel run by an old friend, Harry Bellows. Nolan can't even wander a casino without alerting the suspicions of security, who rough him up believing he's casing the place. Bellows realizes this gives him the perfect scapegoat for his plan to steal the monthly skim, with the mob none the wiser. Predictably, the plan involves kidnapping Nolan and Sherry. Some awkwardly written sex scenes may appeal to middle-aged male fantasies. This long in the tooth homage to Donald Westlake's Parker series is strictly for Nolan fans.
