Michael Collins, Author Roberts Rinehart Publishers $10.95 (140p) ISBN 978-1-57098-064-0
Collins (1890-1922) is generally recognized as the architect of the Irish Republic. Between 1920 and 1922 he would wipe out the entire British Secret Service in Ireland (while having a 10,000 bounty on his head), finance the new Irish state,...
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Michael Collins, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (253p) ISBN 978-1-55611-032-0
The turf grabbed by pimps in Manhattan is central to Collins's latest thriller, starring his admirable one-armed private eye, Dan Fortune. He invades the notorious Minnesota Strip (the squalid area near Times Square), looking for young Roy Carter,...
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Michael Collins, Author Bulfinch Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8212-1687-3
Collins, former curator of the Modern Collection at the British Museum, chronicles movements, artists and works of design from 1851 through the present. Beginning with the vital design trends of the late 19th century, the well-written survey...
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Michael Collins, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (259p) ISBN 978-1-55611-113-6
Collins's one-armed PI Dan Fortune is up against the FBI, the CIA and a ruthless family in this tautly crafted mystery. Brooding ex-teacher Frank Owen is searching for his immature kid brother, Billy, a frustrated John Wayne type involved with...
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Michael Collins, Author Grove/Atlantic $22.5 (307p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1160-9
An insider's exciting view of U.S. plans to land on--and even colonize--the Red Planet, this well-written account includes the author's blueprint for a 22-month mission to Mars that would depart Earth in June 2004. Collins, who piloted the Apollo...
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Michael Collins, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-55611-185-3
``Give an Irishman a horse and he'll vote Tory'' goes the old British maxim at the heart of Collins's latest mystery featuring one-armed PI Dan Fortune. Although the leftist leanings of some characters are reiterated relentlessly, the page-turning...
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Michael Collins, Author Random House (NY) $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42090-3
In this first story collection, Collins, Irish-born and distantly related to the Irish revolutionary who is his namesake, charts out new territory for the discussion of age-old problems. His perspective on life in Ireland is that of disaffected...
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Michael Collins, Author Dutton Books $20.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-55611-461-8
This weak effort from the author of Red Rosa and Cassandra in Red features Ford Morgan, who is hired by his former wife when her son is accused of shooting his father, ruthless and powerful Ralph Baliol. Drawn from his current home in Costa Rica,...
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Michael Collins, Author, Matthew Price, Author, Michael Collins, Editor DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7894-4605-3
Coauthored by an Irish Catholic priest and an American evangelical publisher, this sumptuously illustrated volume offers a whirlwind tour of the Christian Church. The narrative kicks off with Abraham, the Old Testament patriarch, followed by a...
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Michael Collins, Author . Scribner $13 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1803-0
This curiously landscaped crime drama, Collins's U.S. debut and a Booker Prize nominee, showcases the author's cool, playful competence. Captivatingly set in a small, nameless rust belt town left far behind in the economic dust, the story...
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Michael Collins, Author . Scribner $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2904-3
"I couldn't quite get us back without incident for the burial of my father. We ran into a little trouble along the way. It took us two stolen cars along the interstate to get us home." Collins, an Irish-American writer whose last novel,...
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Michael Collins, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-33778-0
Collins begins this personal chronicle with an account of a choice he had to make between amputating a 14-year-old boy's leg and saving the limb at a greater risk to the boy's life. (He amputated the leg.) This dilemma came at the conclusion of...
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Michael Collins, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (307p) ISBN 978-1-59691-229-8
Collins, whose The Keepers of Truth
was shortlisted for the Booker, presents a sardonic view of academia in this literary crime novel. E. Robert Pendleton's heralded first novel secures him a teaching position at exclusive Bannockburn College...
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Michael Collins, Author . Viking $23.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-670-03328-7
Part police procedural, part piercing psychological character study, Collins's latest novel revolves around a series of lurid murders that threaten the equilibrium of the unstable cop who investigates the killings, as well as the unnamed...
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Michael Collins, Author, Michael Collins, Other Dutton Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55611-145-7
One-armed private eye Dan Fortune, seen before in Minnesota Strip , is hired to trace Jack Price, whose wife is suspicious of his mysterious all-night absences from their home in Santa Barbara, Calif. Fortune discovers that Price is ``chasing eights'
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Michael Collins, Author, Michael Collins, Other Dutton Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55611-052-8
Collins's reputation stands on a series of novels with qualities rare in the mystery/thriller genre. The hero of Minnesota Strip, Freak, etc. is one-armed private eye, Dan Fortune, who tackles a weirdly complicated case here. In a New York City...
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Leon O'Broin, Editor, Michael Collins, Author, Catherine Brigid Kiernan, Author St. Martin's Press $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-16211-5
Collins (1890-1922) is remembered as the man who outfoxed the British in the Irish War of Independence, led the hard-nosed negotiations that resulted in the eventual establishment of the Irish Republic and became head of state at the age of 31. This
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