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QUARRY'S BACK – FOR HIS TOUGHEST JOB EVER.
The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead?
And why in hell does he care?
On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's...
The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead?
And why in hell does he care?
On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's...
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FIRST…THERE WAS THE LAST QUARRY.
THEN…THERE WAS THE FIRST QUARRY.
NOW…LOOK WHO’S CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE.
The enigmatic hitman Quarry — star of seven celebrated novels and an award-winning feature film (The Last Lullaby) — is back in this violent, steamy tale of warring crime families. When two Godfathers set out to bump each other off, guess who winds up with both...
THEN…THERE WAS THE FIRST QUARRY.
NOW…LOOK WHO’S CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE.
The enigmatic hitman Quarry — star of seven celebrated novels and an award-winning feature film (The Last Lullaby) — is back in this violent, steamy tale of warring crime families. When two Godfathers set out to bump each other off, guess who winds up with both...
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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...
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...
4) Quarry's Ex
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BECAUSE HOMICIDE
BEGINS AT HOME
Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one — by expecting...
BEGINS AT HOME
Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one — by expecting...
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BIG MAN ON CAMPUS
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 (and was the basis for the feature film The Last Lullaby).
But where did Quarry's story start? For first time ever, the best-selling author ofROAD TO PERDITION takes us back...
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 (and was the basis for the feature film The Last Lullaby).
But where did Quarry's story start? For first time ever, the best-selling author ofROAD TO PERDITION takes us back...
6) Hard Cash
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Heist-man Nolan is enjoying his retirement from crime, running his own restaurant, when the president of a bank he robbed two years ago shows up with a blackmail demand. All Nolan has to do is rob the bank again—and play patsy to a sexy girlfriend’s murder scheme.
7) Mad Money
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Nolan must rob every store in a mall in one night-or his girlfriend dies.
Nolan and Jon have put their lives of crime behind them-but when a cruel adversary from their past resurfaces, they're forced back into the heist game with a brutal ultimatum: pull off an insanely ambitious overnight robbery or Nolan's kidnapped lover won't live to see the morning.
Appearing in bookstores for the first time in thirty-five years (originally published under the...
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A FAMILY AFFAIRJust when Nolan's looking for a way out of his dead-end job, trouble comes knocking, and he's back in business. Someone harboring an old grudge has just picked off Joey DiPreta, a crooked businessman with ties to the mob, and the guy's family is out to get whoever's responsible. So is Nolan's family-in Chicago-and they offer him big bucks and a piece of a swank hotel if he'll protect their interests.Only this time Nolan's gotten into...
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Where does a hit man draw the line?With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate civil rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he's working for.The longest-running series from...
11) Blood Money
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The mob couldn't kill him, the cops couldn't catch him, and even time wouldn't slow him down. Playing dirty isn't Nolan's style... until he's taken to the cleaners.
Nolan was still alive, his wounds healed and his money was safe-all $800,000 of it. It was Nolan's birthday and he was sitting happy.
Until Planner was killed. Planner was an eccentric antique dealer, Planner had the $800,000 in his safe. But now he was dead and the money was gone.
Caught...
12) Quarry's Choice
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Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the mysterious 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?
13) Bait Money
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The mob couldn't kill him, the cops couldn't catch him, and even time wouldn't slow him down.
His name's Nolan... a shrewd, restless tough guy with a talent for theft. With a lifetime of heists under his belt and a bullet in his side, he's ready to retire. And the Mafia's eager to help him along... permanently. They think he's got a debt to pay-with his life. But after all these years, they might be willing to settle for 100 grand instead.
Nolan's...
14) Quarry's Climax
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Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. And evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max's career permanently. Only another hit man-the ruthless professional known as Quarry-can keep Climer from becoming a casualty in the Sexual Revolution.
15) Skim Deep
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The first new Nolan novel in thirty-three years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition.
The onetime world-class thief Nolan-now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub-whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots Nolan, whose past catches up with him when he's thought...
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Making a score and settling one at the same time is a rare opportunity, enough to bring Nolan out of criminal retirement... but he didn't count on the hillbillies or the skyjacker...
Nolan is a pro, a veteran of mob vendettas and decades of high-tension heists. All he wants in his advancing middle age is his slice of the American pie - a way to make capitalism pay without having to drag guns into it. But a bullet-scarred life does not come without...
17) Quarry's Blood
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The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns for his final act. By Quarry's creator, the award-winning author of Road to Perdition!QUARRY'S VIOLENT PAST COMES LOOKING FOR HIM The professional hitman known as Quarry-star of the Cinemax TV miniseries of the same name-has put killing behind him. But after a beautiful writer of true-crime bestsellers drops by to announce he's the subject of her next book, killers descend to give him...
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The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago–a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller. Now featuring a new preface, plus 115 photographs and a map of gangland Chicago.
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
"Gripping. ... Reads like a novel." -Chicago
"Revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness." -Matthew Pearl
In 1929, thirty-year-old gangster Al Capone ruled both Chicago's underworld and its corrupt...