Memphis, 1975. “Raunchy” doesn’t begin to describe Max Climer’s magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. Evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants...
An icon of noir anti-heroes. Max Allan Collins’s taciturn hit man known only as Quarry made his mark in more than a dozen novels in the 1970s and ’80s. Along the way he gained a popular following and appeared in a few short stories as well,...
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...
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...
WHO PUT QUARRY IN THE CROSSHAIRS? Formerly a Marine sniper in Vietnam, the man known professionally as Quarry has spent the past decade killing for money, first in the service of an agent called the Broker, and then as a freelance hitman. But he’s...
After carrying out his assignment in a down-at-heels river town, the killer for hire Quarry finds someone has played him for a sucker. To figure out who, he must solve the murder he...
Where did the ruthless killer-for-hire Quarry's story start? 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 students is the least of his...
Killer-for-hire Quarry is trying to lie low when he gets a midnight visit from two other gunmen sent by an old associate. Someone wants Quarry off the scene - for...
No longer a killer-for-hire, Quarry now offers his services to people targeted by other hitmen. In this case, the assassin is a beautiful woman who may be as deadly at the game as Quarry...
When a hitman shows up at retired gunman Quarry's refuge, who is the target? Is it Quarry? Or is the assassin on a different mission - and if so, can Quarry foil it for revenge and...