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Better Dead<\/strong><\/a>: A Nathan Heller Thriller by Max Allan Collins<\/p>\n Publisher: Mysterious Press<\/p>\n First sentence…<\/p>\n I was there when the Commies took over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n Better Dead<\/strong><\/a> is actually two interconnected novellas.<\/p>\n In the first Nathan Heller is hired to find evidence to exonerate\u00a0Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a married couple sentenced to die for providing Russia with secret information on how to build nuclear bombs. \u00a0Senator\u00a0Joe McCarthy, who is leading the hunt for American Commies, wants Heller to serve as a double agent and provide him with whatever information Heller learns about the Rosenbergs. \u00a0Before long Heller is on the wrong side of government agents and gangsters and a possible death sentence of his own.<\/p>\n In the second story, Heller learns about government-funded mind control experiments on unknowing subjects from a scientist who has a change of heart. \u00a0When the scientist turns up missing, Heller knows that he’s next up unless he can figure a way out.<\/p>\n I’m a huge fan of Max Allan Collins’ Nate Heller series. \u00a0Heller is a fictional detective who finds himself in the middle of real crimes. \u00a0Heller ages as the series progresses and fiction is mixed with extensive research and historical fact. \u00a0It’s fun watching Heller interact with famous (and infamous) folks right out of our history books. \u00a0Equally enjoyable is Collins’ take on the crimes and what may have really happened (if it is not as we’ve been taught).<\/p>\n
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