Max Allan Collins Books in Order

Former agent John Sand secretly tracks a supposedly dead associate of his wife's father, then Stacey disappears. His search crosses continents, drawing him into assassination attempts and competing threats from organized crime and international intelligence networks.

Retired hitman Quarry is approached by a true-crime writer planning a book about him. When killers arrive soon afterward, he revisits his violent past to identify the threat and confront enemies who have not forgotten him.

When Sheriff Caleb York guns down an abusive young brute in Trinidad, the dead man’s mother, a ruthless cattle baroness, demands revenge and Willa Cullen’s ranch. York is caught between two iron-willed women as hired guns converge on Sugar Creek, the only water that can save Willa’s herd.

Working undercover as an energy executive, spy John Sand hunts stolen uranium before it can become a nuclear weapon. Nazi survivors hiding in South America intend to use it, forcing him into a race against a catastrophic conspiracy.

Set between *Kiss Me, Deadly* and *The Girl Hunters*, Hammer reels from Velda’s disappearance when an old bootlegger friend is murdered. To avenge him, Hammer hunts for a secret ledger packed with the names of corrupt officials, drawing fire from mobsters and power brokers who all want it.

In 1964 a hit and run nearly kills Velda’s mother and quietly reveals that Velda’s father is not who she believed. Hammer and Velda travel to Arizona’s Dreamland Park, a retirement haven for ex-lawmen guarding criminals in Witness Protection, and collide with missing robbery millions and graveyard violence.

Private investigator Nathan Heller becomes involved in the 1953 kidnapping of millionaire's son Bobby Greenlease. When part of the enormous ransom disappears, his inquiry reaches beyond the kidnappers into organized crime, union politics, and Washington.

Present when Robert Kennedy is assassinated in 1968, private detective Nathan Heller questions the official investigation. His search for the truth takes him through possible links to Jimmy Hoffa, intelligence operatives, a manipulated gunman, and a second shooter.

Quarry's retirement ends when his recently discovered daughter disappears, abducted by the subject of her true-crime writing. With help from a woman in his past, the aging hitman returns to the violence he thought he had left behind.

Beginning at a twenty-first-century funeral then flashing back to the summer of 1973, Hammer accompanies Velda to Long Island to watch over her teenage sister, Mikki. When drugs enter the picture and Mikki is targeted, Hammer wages war on the dealers, knowing the final reckoning still lies ahead.

An old high-school girlfriend invites Quarry back to his Ohio hometown for their fiftieth reunion. The retired hitman hopes to revisit his life before Vietnam, but flying bullets turn the gathering into another encounter with his violent past.