Quarry's Vote

by Max Allan Collins

Overview

ASK NOT WHO YOU CAN KILL FOR YOUR COUNTRY

Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It’s not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences—but coming after Quarry has consequences, too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783298914
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	03/08/2016
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	85,174
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Max Allan Collins is the 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.

Editorial Reviews

03/14/2016
Given the bleak tone of Collins's Quarry series, it's not a spoiler to reveal that the tranquility the hitman enjoys at the beginning of his suspenseful fifth outing, first published in 1987 as Primary Target, is short-lived. As he relates in the opening line, his "big mistake was allowing happiness to creep in." Quarry has retired from the murder business and is married to Linda, who reentered his life years after their initial one-night stand. They run a combination hotel, convenience store, gas station, and restaurant in Paradise Lake, Wis. At 39, with money not a worry and a baby on the way, Quarry has become soft, but he's pulled back into his old life by a stranger who knows all about his violent past. The man offers Quarry a million dollars to take out radical presidential candidate Preston Freed, a proposition the assassin refuses. But soon after, Linda and her visiting brother are murdered, sending Quarry on a mission of revenge. Collins (Quarry's Cut) again succeeds in making a stone-cold killer sympathetic and in devising plausible plot twists. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

Quarry’s Vote,” is Collins as his best, delivering a top notched thriller with a dark, twisted lacing of black satirical humor that weaves itself through his depiction of modern politicos from both sides of the aisles." - Pulp Fiction Reviews

"Wonderfully well written...[Collins'] writing has been called 'classic pulp fiction,' but my own take on it is that it is as enjoyable as anything being written contemporaneously." - Gloria Feit

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