Quarry's Vote
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So I am thrilled that editor John Boland at Perfect Crime is doing new editions of the first five Quarrys. I am also grateful to my longtime Ms. Tree collaborator, Terry Beatty, for stepping up and providing great new covers. This novel is a special favorite of mine, because it takes Quarry new places, at a different time of his life. It also allowed me to do some political and social satire, always an element in these novels but never more prominent than here.
Max Allan Collins
August 2010
About the Author
Max Allan Collins, who created the graphic novel on which the Oscar-winning film Road to Perdition was based, has been writing hard-boiled mysteries since his college days in the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. Besides the books about killer-for-hire Quarry, he has written a popular series of historical mysteries featuring Nate Heller and many, many other novels. At last count, Collins’s books and short stories have been nominated for fifteen Shamus awards by the Private Eye Writers of America, winning for two Heller novels, True Detective and Stolen Away. He lives in Muscatine, Iowa with his wife, Barbara Collins, with whom he has collaborated on several novels and numerous short stories. The photo above shows Max in 1971, when he created Quarry.
Tough . . . Sexy . . . Back in print!
QUARRY NOVELS by MAX ALLAN COLLINS
With new Afterwords by the Author
QUARRY
$14.95 (ISBN: 978-1-935797-01-2)
QUARRY’S LIST
$13.95 (ISBN: 978-1-935797-02-9)
QUARRY’S DEAL
$13.95 (ISBN: 978-1-935797-03-6)
QUARRY’S CUT
$13.95 (ISBN: 978-1-935797-04-3)
QUARRY’S VOTE
$14.95 (ISBN: 978-1-935797-05-0)
Available at book stores, on-line retailers
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They don’t come harder-boiled than Quarry.