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Synopsis
Cult favorite Quarry, the killer for hire, is back in print with this debut novel and four other early works by author Max Allan Collins. They don't come any harder-boiled than Quarry. After carrying out his assignment in a down-at-heels river town, the gunman finds someone has played him for a sucker. To figure out who, he must solve the murder he committed. This new edition includes a previously unpublished Afterword by the author.
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About the Author
Max Allan Collins, who created the graphic novel on which the Oscar-winning film Road to Perdition was based, has been nominated fifteen times for top honors by the Private Eye Writers of America and has won twice with Nate Heller historical mysteries. His vivid, tough and sexy novels about killer-for-hire Quarry have thrilled readers for four decades. He lives in Muscatine, Iowa with his wife, Barbara Collins, with whom he has collaborated on several novels and many short stories.
Review
"Collins makes us root for Quarry, or he draws us so completely into Quarry’s world that rooting for anybody becomes beside the poin." - Booklist
"It’s got old school action and a fast paced energy that makes it hard to even think about putting the book down." - Geek Hard
"Pick up “Quarry” by Max Allan Collins if you want a quick, squirmy read, sure to entertain you as well as any classic pulp shoot-em-up." - Noir Whale
"The Quarry series is fast-paced, sexy, violent and entertaining." - BookReporter
"Pulpishly brutal and clever, Quarry makes for an addictive introduction to one of crime fiction’s most enduring and engaging hard-boiled sociopaths. Long may this amoral son-of-a-bitch run . . ." - BlogCritics
"the series is made unforgettable by the main character himself, who may be a killer but not a psychopath, insightful enough to know when something is wrong in the story he has been told and a moral compass to righten matters, as well as tight plots, tersely vivid descriptions and crisp dialogues." - Business Standard
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- PublisherBackcountry Pubns
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0881500577
- ISBN 13 9780881500578
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages218
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