![]() Nolan is on the outs with the Chicago mafia/mob/outfit after killing the brother of Charlie, a made mobster. Nolan has spent the past 16 years avoiding any work around Chicago. We are introduced to Nolan at the end of his month long recuperation from a gunshot. He takes some of the Parker basics - character with one name, working outside the mob, big and tough, no nonsense, single, crime procedural, etc. Collins did a pretty fine job for being only 20-years-old-or-whatever-he-was. As Little Steven says, "you're only as good as who you steal from." To be clear, Collins freely cops to admiring and copying Westlake and he picked a fantastic series to emulate. You'll have to ask him about the weird dates and editions.īait Money was Collins's first published novel and a dead ripoff of Richard Stark/Westlake's Parker novels. Worldcat lists original copyright as 1973. But he pubbed these in the early '70s when he was around 20-years-old. Collins's web page lists both books as 1981. This is a Hard Case Crime reprint twofer of Bait Money and Blood Money. I always try and arrive early at the Milwaukee airport so I have time to check out the large used bookstore, get a coffee, look at the mini-museum, maybe get a milkshake (the milkshake place there is expensive). I bought this one in the Milwaukee airport waiting for my wife's parents to arrive. One of the four Hard Case Crime novels I picked up a month or two ago. Reprint I read: Two For the Money by Max Allan Collins, 2004, 9780857683185. ![]()
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