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    Quarry’s Cut

    By Max Allan Collins

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    WHEN THE DIRECTOR CALLED CUT— THE KILLER DID JUST THAT It’s normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when they’re dead bodies—and the cast and crew discover they’re trapped in a house with a serial killer—Quarry’s got his work cut out for him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTitan Books
    Release dateOct 16, 2015
    ISBN9781783298907
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    Max Allan Collins

    Max Allan Collins is a New York Times bestselling author of original mysteries, a Shamus award winner and an experienced author of movie adaptions and tie-in novels. His graphic novel Road to Perdition has been made into an Academy Award-winning major motion picture by Tom Hank’s production company. He is also the author of several tie-in novels based on the Emmy Award-winning TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

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    • 2/5
      2 stars. Didn't like this one as much; it's much darker than the previous ones.
    • 4/5
      How good is this book? It's a fun romp through a killer's eyes and Collins is so good at portraying Quarry that you often forget he is a violent killer.

      It is filled with terrific descriptions such as that of Wilma, "an enormously fat woman who liked her own cooking even better" than her clients did. Quarry marvels at her ability to squeeze her three or four hundred pounds into a restaurant booth.

      And the story gets even more amusing when Quarry finds himself hidden in a motel closet while his old partner teaches someone some new moves in bed gymnastics. When they stayed in the sack for nearly two hours, Quarry felt stupid hiding in the closet but there was no need to kill the girl, no need for collateral damage. Kill two people and the crap will hit the fan, Quarry explains.

      Overall, this book was good, but seemed to lack some of the "wow" factor in some of the other Quarry books. The author tried to do something a little different here than in the first three books. Keeps the series from going stale.
    • 3/5
      For some bizarre reason I have always enjoyed the “hit-man” type books: Keller, Quarry, et al. Perhaps it stems from an innate desire to take out the Lords of Finance and bring some excitement into what is otherwise an extremely law-abiding life.

      Be that as it may, Perfect Crime Books is bringing back the early Quarry books by Max Allan Collins, the first of which was written while he was at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. I bought all of them.

      Quarry’s Cut was the last of the early ones and it does show some signs of tentativeness, an insecurity with the character, that is lacking from the later volumes. But as the story progresses one can already see signs of the later Quarry.

      Quarry has semi-retired following the death of his broker, but he has managed to purloin the Broker’s files and now makes his living offering his services to targets of the contracts and then taking out the contractor who hired the hit-man. He’s enjoying chili at Wilma’s Inn close to his A-frame house when he sees Turner, a hit-man and former partner with whom he had had a falling out several years before. They exchange a few words (euphemistically speaking) and Quarry beats the target’s name out of him, thinking he, himself, might be the target, in which case it will be important to learn who might have hired Turner.

      He learns the real target is a porno movie director (and soon the puns come fast and furious) and makes his way to the abandoned resort where Jerry Castile, the director, is shooting what he hopes will be his last porno flick. Quarry offers him his deal and soon we are in the midst of an Agatha Christie with bodies falling and a blizzard cutting everyone off from the outside. Quarry only knows that one of the cast may be Turner’s partner in the hit.

      Very enjoyable but only 3 stars in comparison to some of the later Quarry’s.