Midnight Haul - Softcover

Collins, Max Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 187796171X ISBN 13: 9781877961717

Publisher: Knightsbridge Pub Co Mass, 1990

Synopsis

When Crane, a graduate journalism student, hears that his fiancée has committed suicide, he’s immediately suspicious and launches into an investigation of her death. The tiny New Jersey town she lived in has seen a rash of suicides lately, with the unlikely coincidence that everyone who has died worked for Kemco, the chemical factory company that fuels the town’s economy.

As Crane digs deeper, he encounters Boone, a local woman writing a book about the environmental destruction that has come at the hands of the local chemical giant. The two team up to unravel the conspiracies surrounding the factory—which soon makes them the next targets for those aiming to keep Kemco’s shady dealings under wraps. The pair races to expose the illegal operations poisoning the town and bring Kemco to justice—before either of them becomes the latest in the growing list of “suicides.”

About this title

About the Author:

Max Allan Collins is the New York Times best-selling author of Road to Perdition and multiple award-winning novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie novelizations, and historical fiction. He has scripted the Dick Tracy comic strip, Batman comic books, and written tie-in novels based on the CSI, Bones, and Dark Angel TV series; collaborated with legendary mystery author Mickey Spillane; and authored numerous mystery novels including the Quarry, Nolan, Mallory, and the bestselling Nathan Heller historical thrillers. His additional Mallory novels include The Baby Blue Rip-Off, Kill Your Darlings, A Shroud for Aquarius, and Nice Weekend for a Murder.

From Library Journal:

The "midnight haul" of the title is the surreptitious and illegal dumping of toxic chemical wastes. A young graduate journalism student attempts to find out whether the excessive suicides (including his girl friend's mysterious death) occurring in a small New Jersey town are merely coincidence or the result of the town's being a "toxic nightmare"deadly to live in and exorbitantly expensive, if not virtually impossible, to clean up. Collins (True Crime, True Detective, and other novels) has painted a vivid, chillingly realistic picture of what is facing this country with continued indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals. The ultimate horror skillfully described is the total detachment exhibited by large companies and their employees. Didactic in spotswell done overall. Jean B. Palmer, Phillips Acad. Lib., Andover, Mass.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Knightsbridge Pub Co Mass
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 187796171X
• ISBN 13: 9781877961717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224