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“Pulp fiction doesn’t get much better.”
Sunday Times
SOMETIMES YOU BURY THE PAST.
SOMETIMES IT BURIES YOU.
Every professional thief knows you never return to the scene of a crime. But what if you’re forced to?
In this intense heist story – appearing in bookstores for the first time in three decades – MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins brings veteran thief Nolan and his young partner in crime Jon back to rob the same bank they targeted in their debut novel, TWO FOR THE MONEY, at the behest of an embezzling executive and a femme fatale with dollar signs where her soul should be. And those aren’t the only figures resurfacing from the past either – the ruthless Comfort clan is back to even old scores, and some members of the Outfit are packing bullets with Nolan’s name on them. With all these forces marshalled against him, can even the toughest professional hardcase come out on top?
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- ISBN: 9781789091441
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- ISBN: 9781789091441
- File size: 1635 KB
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- English
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February 15, 2022
Collins' Nolan series, starring the no-nonsense thief Nolan and his younger partner, comics-crazed Jon, was written from the sixties into the eighties, but it had been largely unavailable for decades, until Hard Case Crime began reissuing the series as twofers under new titles. This is the third in that sequence, following Two for the Money (2021), and it combines Hard Cash and Scratch Fever. Nolan has no interest in robbing the same bank twice, but he's blackmailed into doing so by the bank manager, who wants a share of the take this time. Naturally, it all goes crazy wrong. Scratch Fever picks up the story years later when Nolan and Jon encounter hair-stylist-turned-entrepreneur Julie, who scammed them on the bank deal. Naturally, they'd like to get their money back, and just as naturally, Julie would like to get rid of them altogether. Collins displays his usual ability to round out the flat edges of what seem initially like stock genre characters, but he really outdoes himself with Julie, surely one of the most memorable femme fatales in hard-boiled fiction (""everything she touches turns to dead"").COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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