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Quarry In The Middle (2009)

by Max Allan Collins(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0843961244 (ISBN13: 9780843961249)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Hard Case Crime

series

Quarry

review 1: Another good, quick read. I really love the Quarry books. Perfect HCC material. Quarry's toughness, practicality & wit are irresistible. His amoral attitude is quite refreshing in our PC world.I've heard there will be another Quarry novel published by HCC in 2010. I'm looking forward to it. In the meantime, I have several other similar novels of Collins' that I'm looking forward to reading & will try to collect the rest of the Quarry books, even though they've been out of print for years.
review 2: This is one case where you CAN judge a book by it’s cover. There’s a menacing looking guy with a table full of booze and a couple of scantily clad beautiful women clutching weapons. What more do you need to know? Collins has been delivering some quality c... moreontract murder stories with his run of Quarry books for Hard Case Crime. You won’t find a hired killer you can sympathize with more other than Lawrence Block’s Keller.The First Quarry gave us the origin story set in the early ‘70s. This is Quarry during the ‘80s, and he’s working a twist on the usual hired killer angle. He’s been following other hit men to jobs and offering to protect the targets by taking out the killers first. For a fee, of course. But trailing a fellow professional to a seedy small town in Illinois filled with illegal gambling, prostitution and drug dealing soon involves Quarry in the rivalry between a couple of casino owners. Quarry has to navigate a terrain filled with small time corruption and deal with several beautiful temptresses. And he has to do it while dressed like Don Johnson in Miami Vice.I always find Quarry interesting because he’s a bit different than the usual contract-killer-as-hero you get in other books. He’s not a merciless sociopath without a conscience, but he isn’t a tortured soul agonizing over the people he’s killed either. Quarry has a very pragmatic outlook and does his best to just complete the job with a minimum of fuss, but circumstances usually aren’t working in his favor.Collins has provided the entire arc of Quarry’s career, but I’m hoping he’ll continue to bring us more stories from Quarry’s past. less

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