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Long before November 22, 1963, Nathan Heller, "P.I. to the Stars," knows that a conspiracy is in the works. Several years earlier, Heller had been involved with the Kennedys, the Mob, and the CIA in the early stages of a plan to assassinate Fidel Castro. Shortly after, Heller's Mafia contact is murdered.
After being interrogated by gangsters and contacted by U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Heller realizes that he may be the one person who can prevent a devastating political assassination. Only he knows all the players; only he knows why a web of conspirators has targeted the man known to the Secret Service as "Lancer," John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Rigorously researched, Max Allan Collins's Target Lancer is far more truth than fiction.
- Sales Rank: #1810921 in Books
- Published on: 2012-11-27
- Released on: 2012-11-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.58" h x 1.13" w x 6.43" l, 1.09 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
From Booklist
For all the voluminous research that has been conducted concerning what really happened on November 22, 1963, there has been virtually no attention paid to the failed assassination attempt of JFK in Chicago on November 2. Leave it to the indefatigable Collins, whose Nathan Heller novels have posited credible alternative theories on the Lindbergh kidnapping, the death of Marilyn Monroe, and numerous other headline-grabbing crimes, to seize on the Chicago story. Naturally, Chicago PI Heller lands in the middle of the action, recruited by the FBI to investigate the chatter surrounding Kennedy’s planned visit and a publicized parade through the Loop in early November. The trip was canceled at the last minute but not before, in Collins’ telling, assassins were in place in a building much like the Texas School Book Depository, and an Oswald-like patsy was in position to take the fall. Basing much of his story on the historical record, Collins spins a fascinating tale, with appearances by Jack Ruby (an old West Side acquaintance of Heller’s), Jimmy Hoffa, and Bobby Kennedy, among others. Gripping from the get-go, this will satisfy both Heller fans and assassination wonks ever eager for a new spin on the story. --Bill Ott
Review
“A whirlwind tour of the story surrounding Marilyn Monroe's untimely demise as it might have been covered in the garish pages of Confidential magazine, or by TMZ for that matter, with more grit than George Baxt's Hollywood mysteries.” ―Library Journal, on Bye Bye, Baby
“Collins convincingly portrays the real-life players in the drama, who include Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Sinatra. Readers with a taste for hard-boiled roman à clef will hope that more Heller is in the offing.” ―Publishers Weekly
“A Hollywood novel that's more interesting than the true story--if, in fact, it's not what really happened anyway. Collins's twist on the American mystery simply can't be put down.” ―RT Book Reviews, on Bye Bye, Baby
“Max Allan Collins can lay claim to being the master of true-crime fiction…a seamless juxtaposition of narrative cunning and historical cross-referencing.” ―Chicago Magazine, on Bye Bye, Baby
About the Author
MAX ALLAN COLLINS is the bestselling author of the graphic novel Road to Perdition, the basis for the hit film starring Tom Hanks. He has won two Shamus Awards for previous Nathan Heller novels. His recent Heller mysteries include Ask Not and Bye Bye, Baby. He lives in Muscatine, Iowa.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
First of the JFK assassination novels--and a good read
By Jenny Hanniver
Not my favorite Nathan Heller novel, but a very good mystery tale focusing on mobster Jack Ruby and an early plot to assassinate JFK which flubbed. I don't buy this assessment of LBJ, who was no saint but not the demon Collins describes. I've lived in Texas and can vouch that it's a selfish, racist state politically, but much, much worse nowadays than it was back in the 60s. That's the only one-dimensional part of this story. However, as always, Collins uses contemporary accounts and up to date historical and biographical writing to make protagonists, especially Nate, come alive. If you are my age (old), vividly remember the assassination of JFK, and were actually watching the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, don't miss this one--and its sequel, ASK NOT. Read this one first.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A sniper waiting for JFK...in Chicago
By Rhouse
Max Allan Collins has insinuated his Chicago detective Nate Heller into some of history's most notorious events: Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater, Huey Long, the Lindbergh kidnapping, Amelia Earhart's disappearance and many more. In "Target Lancer" Collins has Nathan Heller in the middle of perhaps America's biggest mystery/conspiracy~the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
In "Target Lancer" Collins avoids Dallas entirely, instead focusing on the often overlooked but very real plot to kill Kennedy in November, 1963...in Chicago. In the Windy City, the players set in motion what eventually will come tragically to fruition just a few weeks later and change the face of the nation forever.
As always, Collins skillfully weaves his fictional detective into the fabric of real people, places and events~ creating another thought provoking, highly entertaining and incredibly accurate portrait of history. Of COURSE there is conjecture, even now almost 50 years later, the murder of JFK still is the subject of debate. But Collins sews his theory together with actual people like Sam Giancana, Jimmy Hoffa, Jake Rubenstein (aka Jack Ruby) and a little known Thomas A. Vallee, a Chicago resident who bears more than a few similar characteristics to his Dallas counterpart Lee Oswald.
If you are a JFK assassination buff, or interested in recent American history this book is a must-read. If you're a Chicagoan, I recommend "Target Lancer" for its perfectly accurate portrait of 1960s Chicago, from the Loop to Old Town--amazingly precise. If you just happen to enjoy a good mystery, let this fact based novel unfold before you as a well-written "whodunit."
I admit to being a diehard Nate Heller fan, having first discovered him hanging with the likes of Al Capone and Frank Nitti in Collins' "True Detective" trilogy...but "Target Lancer", taking place 30 years after the first in the series, is a suspenseful and enjoyable historical fiction novel to be savored.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Superb novel on the JFK assassination conspiracy
By Laurence J. Coven
TARGET LANCER is the book and the great conspiracy that author Max Allan Collins, and his P.I. extraordinaire Nate Heller have been aiming at all their lives. The big Cahuna, if you will, the nefarious machinations behind the assassination of JFK.
Collins, however, knows this is ground that has been retread so many times that the tires are bald. Not wanting the reader to think for even a moment that this is going to be the same old hash, he knocks you on your flabbergasted seat with the very opening:
"Do you remember where you were when President Kennedy was killed? Even if you weren't alive at the time, you surely know that a sniper in a high window was waiting for JFK to ride by on that infamous day in November.
In Chicago."
If that's not enough to give you enough curiosity for even a thousand cats you should check your pulse. You may not have one.
Then the first chapter alone contains two bombshells for which I am already required not to mention under the reviewer's non-spoiler code.
The story then begins non-portentously enough with Nate meeting old friend Tom Ellison at Berghoff's bar and restaurant, one of the oldest and finest German restaurants in downtown Chicago. Ellison, has come down from Milwaukee where he has a PR business, and needs a favor from his old pal. He would like Nate to help make sure he doesn't get wacked. Seems like Tom, while doing some ill-advised PR work for Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters happened to mention he would like a ticket to the Bears-Eagles game at Wrigley Field (that's right folks the Bears played in the Cubs's park back in those days.) Not only that, it's 1963, one of the Bears' championship seasons, and tickets are unavailable to the unconnected. But Hoffa gets one for Tom, and now Ellison is stuck. In return he must make a drop-off of $10,000 at a sleazy strip joint for reasons unknown, and Tom wants Nate to watch his back. Easy, right?
Well all seems to go well at the drop even though the guy Tom is meeting Nate realizes is a mobbed up restaurant owner who had probably made Heller hanging out in a back booth. Nate worries that he and Tom might be thought of as loose ends. That is until Ellison is found dead in his hotel room with an ice pick in his chest. Now Heller is no longer worried; he's sure. In addition Ellison's wife is a lovely lady and Heller promises that no matter how long, something will happen, and when it does he will tell her, "I think Tom would be pleased".
In the meantime a whole lot of stuff goes on. JFK is coming to Chicago to take in the Army-Navy game at Soldier Field. The Secret Service gets word of a serious coordinated assassination attempt on his way, during the motorcade, from the airport to the game. They have two Cubans and two white guys as definite suspects, plus there's this guy, Vallee, who seems to be a lone nut who has a room filled with weapons and a collage of Kennedy's disfigured face. He brings just a bit of attention to himself by going around in public saying that the President should be killed. But is he being set up just as a patsy?
Turns out the Secret Service is low on manpower and they want to enlist Heller's aide. Despite Heller's admittedly somewhat less than stellar record as a bodyguard, (Marilyn Monroe, Huey Long, Amelia Earhart), he does agree. After all this is the president. And he is in a particularly useful position given his often unwelcome friendships with mob types.
Heller was once involved in Operation Mongoose, a combination undercover op by the government, CIA, the Outfit, some Cubans and maybe a bartender or two (very hush hush) to kill Castro. Some of the brilliant ideas were getting him to smoke an exploding cigar, or a substance in him that would make his beard fall out thus humiliating him in public. The humiliation seems to have backfired.
But Heller is in the know and connected on all sides so he's right in the crosshairs on this operation, sometimes literally.
Heller's main squeeze in this book is Sally Rand the famous fan-dancer burlesque queen who first burst on the scene at the 1933 Chicago World's fair, and at fifty has till got a lot of fanny-dancing left in her. But her gigs are drying up, and Heller uses his Chicago connections to try to get her work. The relationship is ribald and sexy but manages to show a vulnerable side of Heller we don't always see.
Collins is at his most brilliant of all when he is using the city of Chicago. The City of the Big Shoulders washes through the pages of Target Lancer like the waves and wind sweeping of the shores of Lake Michigan. Chicago, far from just a background, becomes a fully developed character of its own, sometimes sheltering and other times spitting out those who would live within its environs. Collins knows and uses the city as no writer has since Nelson Algren. From the Cabrini Green high rise project turned-to-
slums to the glittering Gold Coast. He takes us into the charming wending streets of Old Town where live the mini art galleries and The Second City, the most famous comedy-improv theater both then and now. The South and West Sides come alive as does the incredible ethnic diversity, and the undeniably compelling Loop and downtown, be they ever so filth-spattered.
Chicago lives and throbs with pulsing life, danger, and delight, while unselfishly sharing it's vibrancy with Collins' story.
This is a story that had to be told and must be read.
Laurence Coven is a professional freelance reviwer who has been published in the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post among many others.
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