On the Road to Perdition: Detour

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DC Comics, 2004 - Art - 93 pages
Following further tales from the book "Road to Perdition, award-winning author Max Allan Collins revisits the "Angel of Death" and his son. Michael O'Sullivan (and his young wheelman, Michael Jr.) loot the Kansas City mob's monthly payoff to local crooked politicos and upper-echelon cops. Meanwhile, Connor Looney--in Frank Nitti's protective custody--escapes from house arrest. The younger Looney, tired of being cooped up and a sitting duck, decides to take the O'Sullivan problem into his own hands. Nitti summons the Two Jacks to retrieve Connor Looney, before the homicidal hothead gets himself slaughtered by O'Sullivan...setting up a collison course between the Two Jacks and the O'Sullivans, over whether Connor is killed or returned to Nitti's care.

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Section 3
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About the author (2004)

Max Allen Collins was born in 1948 in Muscatine, Iowa. He is a two-time winner of the Private Eye Writer's of America's Shamus Award for his Nathaniel Heller historical thrillers "True Detective" and "Stolen Away". Collins also wrote the Dick Tracy comic strip begining in 1977 and ending in the early 1990s. He has contributed to a number of other comics, including Batman. Collins created his first independent feature film, Mommy, following a nightmarish experience as screenwriter on the cable movie The Expert. Collins has been contracted by DC Comics to write three tie-ins to his critically acclaimed graphic novel "The Road to Perdition", which was adapted into the feature film. Author of other such move tie-in bestsellers as "In the Line of Fire" and "Air Force One", he is also the screenwriter/director of the cult favorite suspense films "Mommie" and "Mommie's Day".

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