Max Allan Collins has written five suspense-novel series and movie/TV tie-in novels, including In The Line Of Fire, Waterworld, Maverick, Air Force One, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and the New York Times-bestselling Saving Private Ryan. He scripted the internationally syndicated comic strip Dick Tracey from 1977 to 1993 and has written the Batman comic book and newspaper strip. Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins, and their teenage son, Nathan.