Better Dead: The latest Nathan Heller Thriller from
Max Allan Collins!
It's the early 1950's. Joe McCarthy
is campaigning to rid America of the Red Menace. Nate
Heller is doing legwork for the senator, though the Chicago
detective is disheartened by McCarthy's witch-hunting
tactics. He's made friends with a young staffer, Bobby
Kennedy, while trading barbs with a potential enemy, the
attorney Roy Cohn, who rubs Heller the wrong way. Not the
least of which for successfully prosecuting the so-called
Atomic Bomb spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. When famous
mystery writer Dashiell Hammett comes to Heller representing
a group of showbiz and literary leftists who are engaged in
a last minute attempt to save the Rosenbergs, Heller decides
to take on the case.
Heller will have to play both
sides to do this, and when McCarthy also tasks Heller to
find out what the CIA has on him, Heller reluctantly agrees.
His main lead is an army scientist working for the C.I.A.
who admits to Heller that he's been having misgivings about
the work he's doing and elliptically referring to the Cold
War making World War II look like a tea party.
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