Supreme Justice (23 page)

SUPREME THANKS

My co-plotter/researcher, Matt Clemens, and I wish to cite the following books:
The Supreme Court Explained
by
Ellen Greenberg, Norton Publishing, 1997;
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Supreme Court
by Lita Epstein, Alpha, 2004; and
Images of America: Arlington National Cemetery
by George W. Dodge, Arcadia Publishing, 2006.

Thanks to Chris Kauffman (ret.), Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office, for weapon information; and to mystery writers Alan S. Orloff and Eleanor Jones for geographical material concerning the DC metro area.

Special thanks to Aimee Hix, our go-to person for all things DC.

Also, thanks to agent Dominick Abel; Jacque Ben-Zekry of the Amazon Author Team; and Thomas & Mercer editor Alan Turkus.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Photograph by John Deason

MAX ALLAN COLLINS has earned an unprecedented nineteen Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels
True Detective
(1983) and
Stolen Away
(1991), receiving the PWA life achievement award, the Eye, in 2007. In 2012, his Nathan Heller saga was honored with the PWA Hammer Award for making a major contribution to the private eye genre.

His graphic novel
Road to Perdition
(1998) is the basis of the Academy Award–winning Tom Hanks film, followed by two acclaimed prose sequels and several graphic novels. He has created a number of innovative suspense series, including Mallory, Quarry, Eliot Ness, and the “Disaster” series. He is completing a number of Mike Hammer novels begun by the late Mickey Spillane; his audio novel
The New Adventures of Mike Hammer: The Little Death
won a 2011 Audie.

His many comics credits include the syndicated strip
Dick Tracy;
his own
Ms. Tree
;
Batman
; and
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,
based on the TV series for which he wrote ten bestselling novels. His tie-in books have appeared on the
USA Today
bestseller list nine times and the
New York Times
three. With frequent collaborator Matthew Clemens, he wrote the Thriller Award–nominated
You Can’t Stop Me
and its sequel
No One Will Hear You.
His movie novels include
Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One,
and
American Gangster
(
IAMTW Best Novel “Scribe” Award, 2008).

An independent filmmaker in the Midwest, Collins has written and directed four features, including the Lifetime movie
Mommy
(1996), and he scripted
The Expert,
a 1995 HBO World Premiere, and
The Last Lullaby
(2008), based on his novel
The Last Quarry.
His documentary
Mike Hammer’s Mickey Spillane
(1998/2011) appears on the Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray of
Kiss Me Deadly.

His play
Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life
was nominated for an Edgar Award in 2004 by the Mystery Writers of America; a film version, written and directed by Collins, was released on DVD and appeared on PBS stations in 2009.

His other credits include film criticism, short fiction, songwriting, trading-card sets, and video games. His coffee-table book,
The History of Mystery,
was nominated for every major mystery award, and his
Men’s Adventure Magazines
(with George Hagenauer) won the Anthony Award.

Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins; as “Barbara Allan,” they have collaborated on nine novels, including the successful Trash ’n’ Treasures mysteries, their
Antiques Flee Market
(2008) winning the
Romantic Times
Best Humorous Mystery Novel Award in 2009. Their son, Nathan, is a Japanese-to-English translator, working on video games, manga, and novels.