Quarry's Choice: Quarry

by Max Allan Collins

Overview

Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent South to remove a traitor in the ranks. But in this wide-open city – with sin everywhere, and betrayal around every corner – Quarry must make the most dangerous choice of his deadly career: who to kill?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783290840
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	01/06/2015
Series:	Quarry , #12
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	307,560
Product dimensions:	5.04(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.65(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

03/09/2015
Mickey Spillane fans will relish Collins's 11th novel featuring the hard-hitting hit man who goes by Quarry (after 2014's The Wrong Quarry). In 1972, a year after Quarry finished his tour of duty in Vietnam, he's settled into his new career as a murderer for hire, working for a middleman known as the Broker. After a failed attempt on the Broker's life, he himself becomes Quarry's client, setting the mercenary on the trail of a Dixie Mafia leader, Jack Killian, whom the Broker believes wants him dead. Quarry finds getting close to Killian easy, but the assignment becomes an emotional challenge as his target becomes human to him, as does a hooker with the clichéd heart of gold . A few twists bolster the fairly predictable story, as dolean prose and well-constructed action sequences. Impressively, Collins manages to make his violent, brutal, and efficient killer somewhat sympathetic rather than merely repellent. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary Agency. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"Collins is in fine form here...The humor is black, the tone is dark, and the outlook is bleak, but the novel is ultimately uplifting, as you quickly find yourself rooting for this very bad, very violent man." - Mystery Scene

"Max Allan Collins has outdone himself. Again" - Noir Journal

"Quarry’s Choice,” moves at a speed just slightly over the limit like a smooth oiled literary machine with enough pick up and power to carry the reader to a damn satisfying finale." - Pulp Fiction

"If you are a fan of hard boiled fiction, I heartily recommend Max Allan Collins Quarry!" - Expert Comics

"This is a terrific hard-boiled series; read just one, and you will look forward to the next installment or finding the earlier books." - Book Reporter

"Quarry's Choice is Quarry's masterpiece, a savage, twist-rich, sexy, wry and relentless tale of bad guys and even much worse bad guys." - Ed Gorman

From the Publisher

Though this is Collins's eleventh Quarry story, he takes listeners back to the beginning, when Quarry returned from Vietnam and became a young hit man. Thanks to Collins, and narrator Stefan Rudnicki, you can't put your headphones down. Quarry is sent to Mississippi by his "broker" to kill a Southern Mafia hood. Along the way, he manages to befriend a hooker and dispatch eight additional wrongdoers. Rudnicki's voice is deep and entrancing. Perhaps a little too deep for the young killer. On the other hand, he's got a fine Southern brogue and moves this hard-core story along at a frenzied clip—almost too quickly to savor. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2015 - AudioFile