{"product_id":"skim-deep-isbn-9781789091397","title":"Skim Deep","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first new Nolan novel in 33 years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoad to Perdition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\"This jaunty caper novel has a definite dark side—Nolan is no ersatz antihero—but Collins, as always, mixes blood and badinage with gusto.\" - Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The prolific Collins resurrects Nolan...for another adventure that will return him to the dark side...No doubt about it: It’s great to see Nolan back in action.\" - Kirkus Reviews \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSKIM DEEP contains everything that aficionados of noir crime fiction love, including sex, violence, gunshots and double-crosses.\" - Bookreporter\u003cb\u003eMax Allan Collins\u003c\/b\u003e was hailed in 2004 by Publisher's Weekly as \"a new breed of writer.\" A frequent Mystery Writers of America nominee in both fiction and non-fiction categories, he has earned an unprecedented eighteen Private Eye Writers of America nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels, \u003ci\u003eTrue Detective \u003c\/i\u003e(1983) and \u003ci\u003eStolen Away\u003c\/i\u003e (1991). In 2002, his graphic novel \u003ci\u003eRoad to Perdition\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted into an Academy-Award winning film, starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law and Daniel Craig. He lives in Iowa, USA.","brand":"Hard Case Crime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301758030053,"sku":"NP9781789091397","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781789091397.jpg?v=1767736723","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/skim-deep-isbn-9781789091397","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}