Quarry

Cult favorite Quarry, the killer for hire, is back in print with this debut novel and four other early works by author Max Allan Collins. They don't come any harder-boiled than Quarry. After carrying out his assignment in a down-at-heels river town, the gunman finds someone has played him for a sucker. To figure out who, he must solve the murder he committed. This new edition includes a previously unpublished Afterword by the author. About the Author Max Allan Collins, who created the graphic novel on which the Oscar-winning film Road to Perdition was based, has been nominated fifteen times for top honors by the Private Eye Writers of America and has won twice with Nate Heller historical mysteries. His vivid, tough and sexy novels about killer-for-hire Quarry have thrilled readers for four decades. He lives in Muscatine, Iowa with his wife, Barbara Collins, with whom he had collaborated on several novels and many short stories.