General Information
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 Title:                  Majic Man
 Author:                 Max Allan Collins
 Read By:                Jeff Woodman
 Copyright:              1999
 Audiobook Copyright:    2000
 Genre:                  Detective
 Publisher:              Recorded Books Inc
 Series Name:            Nathan Heller
 Position in Series:     10
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Source:                 Digital Download (07/2009)
 Condition:              Good

File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         16
 Total Duration:         10:25:43
 Total MP3 Size:         286.51
 Parity Archive:         YES
 Ripped By:              Hoosier
 Encoded At:             CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
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Paranoia overruns rather than creeps into Chicago PI Nathan Heller's 
10th historical case (Flying Blind, etc.). In 1949, longtime client 
James Forrestal, the outgoing U.S. secretary of defense, believes himself 
the target of Communist forces within the federal government who have 
him under personal and electronic surveillance. He hires Heller to prove 
it shortly before his enforced resignation, afraid that "I've betrayed 
my country by trying to serve it." Forrestal is being watched by a number 
of parties who want to exploit Heller's proximity and keep a lid on 
some undefined intelligence. Conspiracies nest like Russian dolls, involving 
the U.S. government, the Haganah (the underground Zionist defense organization)-
, a ruthless national columnist and the famous 1947 incident in Roswell, 
N.M., where a UFO allegedly crashed. The lunatic effect is not lost 
on Heller, who muses: "Weren't Commies, Zionists, and Nazis enough? 
Must I add spacemen to the list?" Collins overloads the book with references 
(Sinatra, Truman, Capone). He needn't have bothered. Heller possesses 
a refreshingly gritty underside, reflected in a past that encompasses 
a stay in a psychiatric ward, perjury and sensitive casework for the 
highest levels of society and government. There's magic of a literary 
kind here: full-bore suspense coupled with an ingenious take on an overworked 
pop-historical touchstone. (Sept.) FYI: Two previous novels in the Nathan 
Heller series, Damned in Paradise and Stolen Away, have won Shamus Awards 
for Best Novel of the Year.
