The First Quarry (Hard Case Crime Book 48)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (659 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004V4FOK2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 597 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Hard hitting Quarry" according to Myron I Perry. As usual Collins doesn't disappoint. Great Quarry book, full of twists and turns, developed characters and surprising hits.. "Max Allan Collins' classic "Quarry" character returns one more time" according to Joseph P. Menta, Jr.. I love when the prolific Max Allan Collins writes an original mystery or crime novel, as opposed to the many movie novelization/tie-in books he's been doing the past several years. Not that those tie-in books are bad (they aren't), but when writing his own stories and using his own characters, he's the best. Take my word for it and look for some of his "Nolan", "Mallory", or "Quarry" titles (most out of print, alas, but easy enough to find with a little resourcefulness on the computer), as well as diverse titles like "The Titanic Murders", "Strip for Murder", and "A Killin. Mel Odom said Quarry's First Hit -- Shaken, Stirred, and Twisted. Crime and suspense novelist Max Allan Collins has been writing about a professional hitman codenamed Quarry for forty years. I picked up the first book back in my teens and fell in love with the hard-hitting sparse style and the no-nonsense approach the author has with the character.Quarry, real name unknown, served in Vietnam and came home to find his wife in bed with someone else. Rather than kill his wife, Quarry killed the guy by kicking the jack out from under the car he was working on. After the trial and the decision to get him off the front page because he was a re
He wrote the graphic novel Road to Perdition (which was developed into a film in 2002). . More recently, he has written a book, Buried Deep, based on the TV Series Bones. He has also written two novel sequels to Road to Perdition - Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise. He has also served as the creative consultant for a number of major productions, and has written books and comics based on the TV series franchise CSI. He has written novels, screenpla
Great entertainment from a pro’s pro. Like Lawrence Block in his hit-man series starring the similarly one-named Keller, Collins manages the neat trick of engendering sympathy for a killer by muddying the moral waters: plot complications change the terms of the deal, requiring Quarry to do his killing out of self-preservation rather than cold-blooded commerce. --Bill Ott . Either way, Collins knows the terrain, mixing pulp-style action with just enough character building to keep us going. From Booklist Indefatigable genre veteran Collins brought back his hit-man hero Quarry two years ago (The Last Quarry, 2006) after a 30-year hiatus. Naturally, it started in Vietnam, where ne’er-do-well Quarry found something he was good at—killing people; later, after a wrong t
BIG MAN ON CAMPUSCrime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Allan Collins’ acclaimed novels – most recently THE LAST QUARRY, which told the story of the assassin’s final assignment (and was the basis for the feature film The Last Lullaby).But where did Quarry's story start? For first time ever, the best-selling author ofROAD TO PERDITION takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry’s first job: infiltrating a college campus and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sins…