Midnight Haul - Hardcover

Collins, Max Allan

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ISBN 10: 0881500771 ISBN 13: 9780881500776

Publisher: Countryman Pr, 1986

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Suspicious because his girlfriend lacked a motive for her sudden suicide, journalism student Crane, investigates and discovers that five other townspeople--all employees at the Kemco chemical company--have committed suicide within the last year

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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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