Description

The first new Nolan novel in 33 years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition.

The 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.

Publisher Review

"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 "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 SKIM DEEP contains everything that aficionados of noir crime fiction love, including sex, violence, gunshots and double-crosses." - Bookreporter