Killing Quarry: Quarry

by Max Allan Collins

Overview

The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns with an all-new assignment. By Quarry's creator, the award-wining author of Road to Perdition!

Quarry, star of 13 previous novels, a comic book and the acclaimed Cinemax TV series, returns in an all-new assignment that takes the hitman's hitman into uncharted territory, when he finds out that for the first time someone has taken out a hit on him. And is the mysterious killer assigned to hit the hitman someone from Quarry's past? Maybe even a past lover...?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785659454
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	11/12/2019
Series:	Quarry , #14
Edition description:	Media Tie
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	590,386
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Max Allan Collins is the author of Road to Perdition, the acclaimed graphic novel that inspired the movie, and of the multiple-award-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries. Max Allan Collins is one of most prolific and popular authors working in the field today. He is also the literary executor of Mickey Spillane.

Editorial Reviews

09/23/2019

MWA Grand Master Collins’s irresistible 15th Quarry novel (after 2017’s Quarry’s Climax) finds the professional assassin with a target on his own back. But why? Quarry is operating Wilma’s Welcome Inn in Geneva, Wis., as his “straight” occupation. But once he narrowly escapes an attempt on his life, Quarry joins forces with another killer-for-hire, the beautiful Lu, whom he worked with 10 years earlier. It’s Lu’s presence, and the dash of romance she brings, that really energizes this entry. Every bit Quarry’s equal with a gun and a bit beyond him in the intellect department, Lu saves his bacon more than once. Collins maintains a tension between the two that’s resolved only on the final page. One of the book’s great pleasures is the humorless Quarry’s deadpan narration, whether he’s describing a pragmatic sexual encounter or exactly how a carefully planned hit can suddenly go off the rails. Newcomers and established fans alike will be happily drawn into Quarry’s cold-blooded criminal world. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

"Rousing period pulp for those who miss the '80s or the glory days of men's magazines a generation earlier." - Kirkus Reviews

"The seventies backdrop, complete with cavorting and bloodletting at a former Playboy resort, only adds to the time-capsule ambience of this pulpy pleasure trip." - Booklist

"Irresistible...Newcomers and established fans alike will be happily drawn into Quarry’s cold-blooded criminal world." - Publishers Weekly 

"Vintage Collins, hard-hitting, heavy on the action, and utterly unsentimental." Mystery Scene

“got sex and violence and a taut suspenseful mystery at its core; if you like the other Quarry books you’ll like this one” - Atomic Junkshop 

"KILLING QUARRY is a very worthy addition to the series, answering many questions and leaving just enough unanswered to whet our appetite for the next adventure. Let’s hope that next installment appears soon." —Bookgasm

"Raw violence and emotion mixed with strong characters that bleed hard and die fast. Quite a few people die fast, in fact. And that’s just the way we like it."  -GeekHardShow

"There are plenty of twists, turns and double- and triple-crosses as we head toward an explosive conclusion... At just under 200 pages, this instant classic has something for everybody." - BookReporter 

 “an excellent first introduction to Quarry, and the callbacks are sure to be appreciated by longtime readers as well” - Green Man Review 

“Great fun, a solid retro fix, and true throwback to those action-packed, guns and sex pulp novels of the 1970s” - Borg.com 

"A great addition to Hard Case Crime’s list... it’s really fun, fast-paced crime fiction” - Criminal Element

From the Publisher

2019-08-19
Professional killer Quarry's 1980s midlife career change to selling potential targets the ultimate protection from the people who've marked them for death comes a cropper in a way that would be unusual for anyone but him.

Double-crossed by his longtime handler, the Broker, Quarry (Quarry's Climax, 2017, etc.) has executed him and taken the extensive list of contract killers whose services he handles. Intent on monetizing the list, which is definitely worth serious coin, but unwilling to take the Broker's place as just another middleman, he comes up with the idea of choosing random names from the list, stalking them until he figures out whom they've staked out themselves, and then telling the marks they've been targeted and offering to take out their killers for a price. This new regimen works fine, at least according to the standards of murder for hire, until Quarry gets on the scent of Bruce Simmons, a hit man whose target is Quarry himself. A face-off between the two businessmen ends with Simmons predictably dead, shot by Lu, his partner in crime, who years ago had a brief fling with Quarry but hasn't seen him since. After Quarry's disposed of the body, showered to get rid of the blood and brains, he has sex with the beauteous Lu, who reveals that her own handler, the Envoy, is the client who hired her and Simmons to kill Quarry. Why would someone target an inoffensive hit man who's now switched to killing only his own kind, along with the inevitable collateral damage? The answer awaits at a very, very exclusive investment conference at the Lake Geneva Golf and Ski Resort, which just happens to be run by Quarry's poker buddy Dan Clark—an event at which discussions of high finance will take a back seat to sound and fury.

Rousing period pulp for those who miss the '80s or the glory days of men's magazines a generation earlier.

Kirkus Reviews