Quarry's List - Softcover
The professional killer Quarry tries to find out who has hired two hit men to kill him
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Max Allan Collins is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Road to Perdition, the graphic novel that inspired the Oscar-winning movie starring Paul Newman and Tom Hanks, and of the Shamus-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries. With his wife Barbara, he writes the acclaimed Trash ‘n’ Treasures mysteries under the byline Barbara Allan. Also a filmmaker, Collins created the documentary Mike Hammer’s Mickey Spillane. He lives in Iowa. Visit him at www.maxallancollins.com.
From Publishers Weekly:
First published in 1976 under the title The Broker's Wife, Collins's second novel (after the eponymous Quarry) featuring the Vietnam vet turned hit man is a brisk page-turner that works well as a prequel for readers who are only familiar with more recent titles in the series. The book opens with Quarry being stalked in his Wisconsin home by two killers. They were ostensibly sent by someone who believes Quarry was responsible for the murder of the Broker, the middleman who gave Quarry his lethal assignments. After surviving the encounter, Quarry follows a lead to Davenport, Iowa, where his efforts to stay alive are complicated by an attractive woman who crosses his path. The story line is deceptively simple. As usual, Collins imbues even walk-on characters with personality. This reissue is a good entry point to the series for fans of gritty crime fiction, and showcases some of the prolific Collins's best work. Making a stone-cold killer sympathetic isn't easy, but Collins pulls it off. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary Agency. (Dec.)\n
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- PublisherBackcountry Pubns
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0881500585
- ISBN 13 9780881500585
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages187
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Quarry's List
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Countryman Press Inc., Woodstock, VT
(1985)
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Book Description Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 187 pp. Book is clean with bright pages and a tight binding. Book has creases on both covers and spine, edge wear, scuffs and remainder marks on bottom page edges. From the man who brought you Ms. Tree, Road to Perdition, True Crime and True Detective, here is the second in a series of 16 with the professional hit man, Quarry. A killer with a job to do! The professional killer Quarry tries to find out who has hired two hit men to kill him. "Three and a had months ago I had tried to burn some bridges behind me, but I knew the possibility existed of a bridge or two surviving my incendiary efforts. And if such a case, someone - I didn't know who exactly, but someone - would decide to have me hit. ". Seller Inventory # 024528
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Quarry's List (aka The Broker's Wife) (Quarry # 2)
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(1985)
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