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Two for the Money is an omnibus edition of two novels, Bait Money and Blood Money, that Max Allan Collins originally wrote in 1973 and then revised for re-publication in 1981. He wrote them partly as a tribute to Donald E. Westlake's Parker series, which Westlake wrote under his Richard Stark pseudonym. Unlike Parker, however, Nolan is about as convincingly tough as a five-year-old wearing an eyepatch and pretending to smoke a cigarette. At no point in either of these novels does Nolan ever seem like anything more than what he is; the one-dimensional creation of a fawning fanboy who never misses an opportunity to remind us that Nolan looks exactly like Lee Van Cleef, a particularly banal and lazy form of description, not to mention adolescent and pathetic hero worship. There are apparently three more novels in Collins's Nolan series. They might be better than these two, but I'll probably never find out. Life's too short.