Nathan Heller Mystery / Neon Mirage / Max Allan Collins

Chicago, 1946. Gambling boss James Ragen is shot dead in front of the man who is supposed to protect him: Nate Heller of the A-1 Detective Agency. Which mob boss targeting Ragen’s gambling had Heller fooled: the cold-blooded Capone heir Jake “Greasy Thumb” Guzik or the hot-headed, movie-star idolised Bugsy Siegel? The answer doesn’t lie on the mean streets of Chicago, because the city’s mafia wars have moved west to the glamour of Hollywood and the fabulous – and illegal – potential of a seedy little desert station they call Las Vegas¨.