Howard Hines is one of the greatest masters of the film novel in the United States. This relatively young literary genre has now gained enormous popularity in the world. The novel "Mad Max", based on the film of the same name, was a great success in the USA and Europe, which is usual for all works of Howard Hines.

"Mad Max" is a novelization of the film, made by a Russian-speaking author, although in the book indicated: “translation by S. Generalov, V. Maksimov.” Howard Hines is a collective pseudonym, a fictitious author.