Flying Blind, Max Allan Collins
Flying Blind, Max Allan Collins
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Flying Blind

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 11 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/10/2012

Synopsis

In 1935, Nate Heller is hired to escort Amelia Earhart on a speaking tour due to numerous cut-and-paste death threats against her life. Heller suspects the threats are a stunt by Earhart’s publicity-hungry husband, and the detective’s growing closeness to the bisexual aviatrix leads to a steamy affair. Two years later, when Earhart embarks on her flight around the world—and mysteriously disappears over the South Pacific—Uncle Sam enlists Heller in a clandestine search of Japanese waters for the popular Earhart…and the top-secret plane she was flying.Blending the unsolved mystery and historical facts swirling around Earhart’s disappearance with Heller’s sarcastic wit, Max Allan Collins delivers another riveting tale of intrigue and betrayal, taking Heller far from his native Chicago. As he investigates, Heller discovers a treacherous plot involving marital betrayal and the U.S. government. Heller’s secret undercover mission leads to Saipan where Earhart is believed to be held prisoner. But Nate’s heartbreaking attempted rescue leads the detective to return, many years later, to extract his final revenge.

About Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins has earned fifteen Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective and Stolen Away, and receiving the PWA life achievement award, the Eye. His graphic novel, Road to Perdition, which is the basis of the Academy Award–winning film starring Tom Hanks, was followed by two novels, Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise. His suspense series include Quarry, Nolan, Mallory, and Eliot Ness, and his numerous comics credits include the syndicated Dick Tracy and his own Ms. Tree. He has written and directed four feature films and two documentaries. His other produced screenplays include “The Expert,” an HBO World Premiere. His coffee-table book The History of Mystery received nominations for every major mystery award and Men’s Adventure Magazines won the Anthony Award. Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins. They have collaborated on seven novels and numerous short stories, and are currently writing the “Trash ‘n’ Treasures” mysteries.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Johnny on February 16, 2017

Readers should be very thankful for the factual appendices in the back of Max Allan Collins’ historical novels (usually solved by Nathan Heller, but sometimes by Jack Starr or others). The history and Collins’ well-considered speculation weave together so seamlessly that it would otherwise be diffic......more

Goodreads review by Glen on August 05, 2022

Nate Heller has the worst record of any bodyguard. He's lost almost all of his clients. Amelia Earhart's husband hit on the perfect murder method by hiring him to guard his wife, if he only knew. Kind of a strange mystery as we sort of know what happened to her, but Collins constructs a scenario that......more

Goodreads review by Victor on May 15, 2012

I read this novel about Amelia Earhart because I am interested in her disappearance and because I like the detective novels of Max Collins. I have read his novel True Detective (Nate Heller) and a collection of his short stories, Chicago Lightning. All of the Nate Heller series were offered recently......more

Goodreads review by Beth on February 22, 2019

I was a little put off by the sometimes racist and sexist language- was the author trying to fit the protagonist into the times? But the story eventually grabbed me. The author did a nice job of weaving facts about Earhart with the speculations about how she disappeared and what became of her. It wa......more

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