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    Quarry

    By Max Allan Collins

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    THIS IS IT—WHERE QUARRY’S STORY ALL BEGAN. AND ANOTHER LIFE ENDED. The assignment was simple: stake out the man’s home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTitan Books
    Release dateOct 16, 2015
    ISBN9781783298846
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    Max Allan Collins

    MAX ALLAN COLLINS was the Mystery Writers of America (MWA)'s 2017 Grand Master. He is the bestselling author of the graphic novel Road to Perdition, the basis for the hit film starring Tom Hanks. He has won two Shamus Awards, for True Detective and Stolen Away, both from his series of Nathan Heller novels. A prolific writer, Collins' other works include mystery novels, screenplays, comic books, film novelizations, and historical fiction.

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    • 3/5
      3 stars.

      Glimmers of brilliance in this book from early in Max Allan Collins' career. Not a whole lot to the plot, pretty typical 70s noir.
    • 5/5
      All in all, another great Quarry story that I started and finished all in the same day. Somehow all the Quarry stories include Quarry swimming in the pool at a motel and a woman in a black bikini introducing herself as he comes up out of the water.

      For those of you who have read other Quarry stories, the plot line might be familiar, but it is so well-written and engrossing that it doesn't matter.

      Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      According to Max Allan Collins' afterward, This book was the first to be written of the Quarry series. It was re-released a few years later by his publisher with a different title: The Broker, a change he was unaware of, so when the opportunity to bring it out once again came around, he changed the title back to its original.I like the Quarry series, but you can tell this was an early, unpolished work. Quarry's character is unsettled, and you get the feeling that Collins was struggling a little to make him into a bad guy with few redeeming traits. Collins admits he was "ripping off" Westlake's Parker, but in this book (not so much in the later Quarrys) the protagonist lacks Parker's sense of irony, as brutal as he may be.Quarry is sent by the Broker to kill an apparently innocuous man in a small town along the Mississippi (patterned after Muscatine, Iowa but we don't get a good sense of place). He's also charged with taking out a man at the airport who is carrying a load of heroin. Quarry abhors having anything to do with drugs so he sets up the Broker who ordered the hit by hiding half of the load which he later uses to his advantage. When things start to go wrong, contrary to all good sense, he decides to find out who the original purchaser of the hit was. It's a fun read, but not up to the level of the later books in the series. For a truly memorable "hitman" series read Lawrence Block's Keller books which set the standard.
    • 3/5
      A well written, fast-paced story. While the story has a good deal of violence, its not gratuitous.