
The The First Quarry
Quarry
Max Allan Collins(Author)
Hard Case Crime (Publisher)
Published on 9. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-83541-178-0 (ISBN)
Description
The very first assignment of the legendary hit man known as Quarry, star of the Cinemax TV series, a feature film, a comic book, and 16 novels!
Discover 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...
BIG MAN ON CAMPUS
Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Allan Collins' acclaimed novels - most recently the Edgar Award finalist QUARRY'S BLOOD and QUARRY'S RETURN, which told the story of the assassin's struggles in retirement.
But where did Quarry's story start? In THE FIRST QUARRY, 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 town and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sins...
Discover 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...
BIG MAN ON CAMPUS
Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Allan Collins' acclaimed novels - most recently the Edgar Award finalist QUARRY'S BLOOD and QUARRY'S RETURN, which told the story of the assassin's struggles in retirement.
But where did Quarry's story start? In THE FIRST QUARRY, 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 town and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sins...
Reviews / Votes
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
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Titan Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83541-178-0 (9781835411780)
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Person
Max Allan Collins was hailed in 2004 by Publishers Weekly as "a new breed of writer." A frequent Mystery Writers of America nominee in both fiction and non-fiction categories, he has earned an unprecedented eighteen Private Eye Writers of America nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1991). In 2002, his graphic novel Road to Perdition was adapted into an Academy-Award winning film, starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law and Daniel Craig. He lives in Iowa, USA.