Skim Deep - Max Allan Collins

The first new Nolan novel in 33 years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition.The onetime world-class thief Nolan - now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub - whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots Nolan, whose past catches up with him when he''s thought to be casing the joint. An old "friend" sees Nolan as the perfect patsy for a scheme to heist the weekly skim haul, and when the former thief''s young frequent accomplice, Jon - a musician in the casino''s house band - finds the couple mysteriously, suspiciously missing, it''s up to Nolan''s Best Man to keep wedding bells from tolling a funeral march.