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    The First Quarry

    Part of Quarry

    Author Max Allan Collins
    Paperback
    $17.99 US
    Titan | Hard Case Crime
    5.12"W x 7.78"H x 0.57"D   | 6 oz | 88 per carton
    On sale Sep 09, 2025 | 224 Pages | 9781835411780
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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 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 students is the least of his sins…
    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
    Author of Road to Perdition, the acclaimed graphic novel that inspired the movie, and of the multiple-award-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries, Max Allan Collins is one of most prolific and popular authors working in the field today. He is also the literary executor of Mickey Spillane.
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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 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 students is the least of his sins…

    Praise

    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

    Author

    Author of Road to Perdition, the acclaimed graphic novel that inspired the movie, and of the multiple-award-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries, Max Allan Collins is one of most prolific and popular authors working in the field today. He is also the literary executor of Mickey Spillane.
    Max Allan Collins View titles by Max Allan Collins

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