Dark Angel Before the Dawn

In the Line of Fire, Air Force One,

and the

New York Times

bestseller

Saving Private Ryan.

He scripted the internationally syndicated comic strip

Dick Tracy

from 1977 to 1993, is cocreator of the comic-book features

Ms. Tree, Wild Dog,

and

Mike Danger,

has written the

Batman

comic book and newspaper strip, and the miniseries

Johnny Dynamite: Underworld

. His graphic novel,

Road to Perdition,

has been made into a DreamWorks feature film starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, directed by Sam Mendes.

As an independent filmmaker in his native Iowa, he wrote and directed the suspense film

Mommy,

starring Patty McCormack, premiering on Lifetime in 1996, and a 1997 sequel,

Mommy's Day.

The recipient of a record five Iowa Motion Picture Awards for screenplays, he wrote

The Expert,

a 1995 HBO World Premiere; and wrote and directed the award-winning documentary

Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane

(1999) and the innovative

Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market

(2000).

Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins, and their teenage son, Nathan.