The First Quarry
Quarry
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2011
Summary
Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Allan Collins’ acclaimed novels – most recently THE LAST QUARRY, which told the story of the assassin’s final assignment. But where did Quarry’s story start? For first time ever, the best-selling author of ROAD TO PERDITION takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry’s first job: infiltrating a college campus and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857683649 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0857683640 |
| Author: | Max Allan Collins |
| Publisher: | Titan Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Hard Case Crime |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 104g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 107mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Quarry |
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Critics Review
Acclaim for THE LAST QUARRY“Violent and volatile and packed with sexuality…classic pulp fiction.”— USA Today“Collins’ witty, hard-boiled prose would make Raymond Chandler proud.”— Entertainment Weekly“As cool as an Eskimo Pie on a hot summer day and as sharp as a Ginsu knife.”— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
About The Author
Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins was named a Grand Master in 2017 by the Mystery Writers of America. He is a three-time winner of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Life Achievement award (2006), the Eye.
His graphic novel Road to Perdition (1998) became the Academy Award-winning film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Tom Hanks. His other comics credits include the syndicated strip Dick Tracy, Batman, and (with artist Terry Beatty) his own Ms. Tree and Wild Dog.
He has completed fourteen Mike Hammer novels begun by the late Mickey Spillane, and his Hammer audio novel The Little Death with Stacy Keach won a 2011 Audie. Recently he adapted the first of his Nathan Heller novels into a ten-part audio drama, True Noir.
For five years, he was sole licensing writer for TV’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, creating best-selling novels, graphic novels, and video games. His movie tie-in novels have appeared on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists, including Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One, and American Gangster.
Max has written and directed two documentaries and seven feature films, including the Lifetime movie Mommy (1996); and he scripted The Expert, a 1995 HBO World Premiere, as well as the film-festival favorite The Last Lullaby (2009) based on his innovative Quarry novels, which were also adapted as a 2016 TV series by Cinemax, for which Max wrote two scripts. Collins properties have also been optioned by Skydance, Lionsgate and CBS Films. His most recent self-scripted/directed indie films are Mickey Spillane’s Encore for Murder (2022), Blue Christmas (2023) and Death by Fruitcake (2024).
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