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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.
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Received the Shamus Award, "The Eye" (Lifetime achievment award) in 2006. He has also published under the name . He and his wife, , have written several books together. Some of them are published under the name Book AwardsShamus Awards Best Novel winner (1984) : True DetectiveShamus Awards Best Novel winner (1992) : Stolen AwayShamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1995) : Carnal HoursShamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1997) : Damned in ParadiseShamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1999) : Flying Blind: A Novel about Amelia EarhartShamus Awards Best Novel nominee (2002) : Angel in BlackJapanese: ????????????? or ???????? ????
