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Chicago, September 1964. Beatlemania sweeps the nation, the Vietnam War looms, and the Warren Commission prepares to blame a "lone-nut" assassin for the killing of President John F. Kennedy. But as the post-Camelot era begins, a suspicious outbreak of suicides, accidental deaths, and outright murders decimates assassination witnesses. When Nathan Heller and his son are nearly run down on a city street, the private detective wonders if he himself might be a loose end. . . .
Soon a faked suicide linked to President Johnson's corrupt cronies takes Heller to Texas, where celebrity columnist Flo Kilgore implores him to explore that growing list of dead witnesses. With the blessing of Bobby Kennedy—former US attorney general, now running for Senator from New York—Heller and Flo investigate the increasing wave of violence that seems to emanate from the notorious Mac Wallace, rumored to be LBJ's personal hatchet man.
Fifty years after JFK's tragic death, Collins's rigorous research for Ask Not raises new questions about the most controversial assassination of our time.
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- Sales Rank: #488524 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-10-22
- Released on: 2013-10-22
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
*Starred Review* The third in Collins’ trilogy of Nathan Heller novels about JFK, this one jumps from a few weeks before the assassination (Target Lancer, 2012), when a planned attempt on the president’s life in Chicago was aborted, to several months after the events of November 22, 1963. Heller becomes involved when he and his son are nearly run down as they leave a Beatles concert. Recognizing the driver as one of the Cubans involved in the Chicago plot, Heller sets out to take his family off the assassins’ radar and soon finds himself even deeper in hot water, as he follows the trail of a host of spurious suicides by witnesses of the shooting in Dallas whose versions of what happened conflict with the official, “one-man, one-shooter” version being promulgated by the Warren Commission. Teaming with TV star and investigative reporter Flo Kilgore (read Dorothy Kilgallen), who is on the verge of exposing the cover-up—and its ties to several LBJ cronies—Heller ruffles feathers at the CIA, in the Mob, and possibly even in (or very near) the White House. A master at thoroughly believable historical re-creations of unsolved or covered-up crimes, Collins is the perfect fiction writer to tackle the JFK assassination, and he does so brilliantly, working the edges of the story by focusing on the little-known raft of questionable suicides—all documented in the historical record—and making great use of the Kilgore/Kilgallen character, who was herself one of the unlikely suicides. Even readers who aren’t conspiracy theorists will find themselves utterly drawn into the story and convinced by Collins’ version of what happened. And, best of all, it’s a terrific detective novel, compelling and well constructed even without the historical connection. --Bill Ott
Review
For "Target Lancer"
"Collins has not only devised an original take on what may well be the most-written-about crime in history but also made Heller's role in the case plausible."
--"Publishers Weekly"
""Target Lancer" brings us a different, fact-based assassination scenario, eerily paralleling the Dealey Plaza nightmare." --"Kirkus Reviews"
"Collins spins a fascinating tale with appearances by Jack Ruby, Jimmy Hoffa, and Bobby Kennedy. Gripping from the get-go, this will satisfy both Heller fans and assassination wonks ever eager for a new spin on the story." --"Booklist"
Praise for" Bye Bye, Baby"
"Noir meets the History Channel--Collins effortlessly weaves his historical material into a fast-moving narrative."
--"Booklist"
"Max Allan Collins can lay claim to being the master of true-crime fiction. . . a seamless juxtaposition of narrative cunning and historical cross-referencing."
--"Chicago Magazine"
About the Author
MAX ALLAN COLLINS is the author of the acclaimed graphic novel "Road to Perdition" (basis for the Academy Award-winning Tom Hanks film) and its sequels. Publication of "Ask Not, " the concluding novel in Collins's JFK trilogy, marks the thirtieth year of his Nathan Heller mysteries. An independent filmmaker, Collins lives in eastern Iowa.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Collins' JFK assassination novels, Part 2--worthwhile!
By Jenny Hanniver
This one follows TARGET LANCER as the final part of the duology of Collins' JFK series (or trilogy if you include the earlier novel about Marilyn Monroe). The time takes place after the president's assassination, and Nate Heller (fictional) is pulled into genuine history again--which is Collins' specialty. If you are old enough (as I am) to have sat glued to the TV news, read all the conspiracy theory books, which conflict each other, and (in my case) lived for years in Texas and happen to have a grad degree in History, you will especially find this thought-provoking. Even if you're a Millennial, it makes a durn good read!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Top shelf...five stars plus
By Quixote010
Max Collins has made a career of bringing conspiracy theories to life through the eyes of his creation, Nathan Heller: private eye to the stars.
Beginning in the 1930 and now into the 1960s, Nate Heller has found himself drawn into events transcending notable actions like the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Bugsy Siegle murder or even the Kennedy assassination. Collins' skill lies in connecting known facts and people and subsequently intertwining Heller and his associates among them.
In his most recent story, Heller jumps the recent killing of Kennedy to other issues the were percolating at time-- this time, the relationship of Lyndon Johnson and big money and that connection/relationship to JFK. Collins never openly declares that LBJ was involved directly in the president's murder, but "indirectly"...who is to say!
Here's what you can be assured of in a Collins-Heller novel: a fast-moving, historically connected tale; a well-written story that summarizes and leads you thru a labyrinth of actual events with a plausible conclusion; and characters and locations you can easily relate to. As a suggestion, this is the third story in a JFK trilogy Collins planned It's not necessary to have read "Bye, Bye Baby" or "Target Lancer" the other books around the Kennedy murder, but it simply helps with your understanding of how Heller gets involved in this historical situation.
The bottom line is this: Colin's is One of the best writers ever in this genre... Give yourself a treat and get acquainted.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The Case of the Constant Suicides
By Patrick
It’s 1964. Beatlemania is sweeping the nation, and Chicago private eye Nate Heller is taking his son to see the group live onstage. Heller is working security for the group, and as a result, he gives his son one awesome birthday present when he brings him to meet the group and they sign a napkin for him. All in all, it was a terrific evening, even if the Beatles’ screaming fans threatened to permanently damage Heller’s hearing.
But I suppose something worse could happen. For instance, a car might try to run Heller and his son down, and damn near succeed at ridding the world of the feisty P.I. once and for all. But Heller’s son is too quick for the driver, and succeeds at getting his dad out of harm’s way. But Nate Heller got a look at the driver, and he’s pretty sure he recognizes him. It’s somebody that he dealt with almost a year ago, a Cuban who was connected with the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy… in Chicago. The plot, described in detail in 2012’s "Target Lancer", was ultimately foiled, but didn’t do much good: Kennedy met his death in Dallas a few weeks later, and the supposed assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was killed two days later by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
The Warren Commission is about to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone assassin, an anti-Kennedy, pro-Castro maniac who decided to kill the President and managed to do so. But due to his involvement in foiling the Chicago attempt on Kennedy’s life, Heller knows that the truth is far more complicated. He suspects that, due to his knowledge, some people in power might consider him a “loose end” that needs to be tidied up. He investigates, and discovers that all sorts of “loose ends” are being cleaned up. There’s a bad case of suicides sweeping JFK assassination witnesses, and Heller suspects that a clean-up crew is making sure the official story stands…
The assassination of John F. Kennedy is one of the most intriguing and frustrating murder cases of all-time. I have absolutely no opinion on the case, and I frankly don’t see what my opinion could possibly mean even if I had one. Thousands of books must have been published on the subject by now, and the source material is so contradictory that I have no idea what elements of the case are true, which are false, and which are somewhere in between. For instance, would it have been possible for a lone assassin to fire three shots in such a short time?
Person A says that's ridiculous.
Person B says Person A is a nut and can demonstrate that it is possible via experiment.
Professor C comes around and says that Person B based his experiments on flawed data, and that adjusting the experiment for that, it turns out it isn't possible after all.
Now Mr. D comes along and says Professor C is misinterpreting the experiment in order to push his own theory, and that in fact it’s possible, but the assassin would have to be extensively trained to pull the feat off.
Person E is from the CIA and has no comment.
And we can play this merry game of ring-around-the-rosy over and over and over again. As a result, I’m left at the side of the road with a confused expression, shrugging my shoulders and thinking: “Well, anything’s possible…”
That being said, Max Allan Collins has pushed forward an intriguing theory as to the identity of the “big players” behind Kennedy’s death. I have no idea to which extent Collins has fictionalised history – well, okay, I’m kind-of lying. Collins gives you a decent idea of just how much he’s had to fictionalise history in an extensive author’s note at the end of the novel, acknowledging his sources and admitting to such sins as time compression in order to make the novel a good story. But I’m not nearly well-versed enough in JFK lore to give additional comments. So to put aside all questions of historical accuracy, Collins has done a helluva job constructing a terrific and intelligent thriller. The plot is intriguing, it moves at a crisp pace, you get a satisfying ending, and it’s all done in 320 pages. The bottom line is, it's great reading.
Has Collins proposed the definitive answer to “who killed Kennedy”? Well, you got me. For all I know, the Queen of England was the shooter, with the fake Paul McCartney helping her reload. But Collins' is a very persuasive solution for the purposes of this story, and it’s a perfectly plausible real-life solution as well.
And how can you discuss a Nate Heller novel without discussing Heller himself? I’ve become a big fan of this series over the past couple of years, and it’s become a treat to look forward to the next Heller novel. Heller is one of the all-time great fictional detectives. He tries to be an honest man in a dishonest world. Everyone around him has secrets, and Heller has his own fair share. He’s as honest as his surroundings will allow him to be, and in this novel he has to confront all sorts of tough types in order to get the results he wants. Although we know Heller’s a good, caring guy, when he confronts these men, he can be tough-as-nails and can mix it up with the best of them. The inspiration of both Phillip Marlowe and Mike Hammer is obvious, and the combination works wonderfully.
Overall, I can highly recommend "Ask Not". It’s a terrific, fast-paced, intelligent and highly entertaining read. It’s wonderfully-written, it’s intriguing, and the ultimate solution is a satisfying one. However, it would probably be a good idea to, at the very least, read the preceding book in the “JFK Trilogy”, Target Lancer. Plot elements from that book are crucial to Ask Not and it would probably make the newer book more enjoyable if you know what happened to Heller a year ago.
Notes on the audiobook: Once again, brilliant. Dan John Miller is the perfect voice for Nate Heller, and he nails the audiobook performance yet again. Audiophiles are encouraged to listen to the recording if they can.
[This review was adapted from a review posted to my blog, "At the Scene of the Crime", on 08/11/2013.]
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