Ask Not

Name: Ask Not
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Max Allan Collins
ISBN: 9781470381516

Author: Max Allan Collins

Series: Nathan Heller #18

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/22/2013

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction, Private Investigators

Synopsis

Chicago, September 1964. Beatlemania sweeps the nation, the Vietnam War looms, and the Warren Commission prepares to blame a " lone-nut" assassin for the killing of President John F. Kennedy. But as the post-Camelot era begins, a suspicious outbreak of suicides, accidental deaths, and outright murders decimates assassination witnesses. When Nathan Heller and his son are nearly run down on a city street, the private detective wonders if he himself might be a loose end. . . . Soon a faked suicide linked to President Johnson' s corrupt cronies takes Heller to Texas, where celebrity columnist Flo Kilgore implores him to explore that growing list of dead witnesses. With the blessing of Bobby Kennedy-- former US attorney general, now running for Senator from New York-- Heller and Flo investigate the increasing wave of violence that seems to emanate from the notorious Mac Wallace, rumored to be LBJ' s personal hatchet man. Fifty years after JFK' s tragic death, Collins' s rigorous research for Ask Not raises new questions about the most controversial assassination of our time.

About Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller thrillers and the graphic novel Road to Perdition, basis of the Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks. His innovative Quarry novels led to a 2016 Cinemax series. He has completed a dozen posthumous Mickey Spillane mysteries, and wrote the syndicated Dick Tracy series for more than fifteen years. His one-man show, Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, was an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in Iowa.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glen

Heller finds himself involved in the JFK assassination. Like many baby boomers, MAC never really got over this, and it shows. We get the whole narrative about how the arrival of The Beatles gave them permission to quit mourning. Heller goes to New Orleans, to assure the mafia boss there, then heads......more

Goodreads review by Mark

The Nathan Heller series is a work of historical fiction genius and M.A.C. writes some of the best Hard Boiled literature around of any era. Period. This installment finishes Collin's JFK trilogy and while its inter-working of fiction and fact is seamless as usual this is also the most static of all......more

Goodreads review by Randy

I've been a fan of the Heller novels for many years now. Mr. Collins is now getting into territory I lived in. I remember the Kennedy assassination, seeing Ruby shoot Oswald on live TV, and a couple of years later the Beatles arriving on our shores. ASK NOT concludes the author's JFK trilogy and begi......more

Goodreads review by Johnny

Using the first two words of the most famous line in John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address as the title of a Nathan Heller novel should telegraph something right away. Ask Not weaves the old private detective through the intricacies of the most famous conspiracy ever officially denied at the highest l......more