Quarry in the Black
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Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller thrillers and the graphic novel Road to Perdition, basis of the Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks. His innovative Quarry novels led to a 2016 Cinemax series. He has completed a dozen posthumous Mickey Spillane mysteries, and wrote the syndicated Dick Tracy series for more than fifteen years. His one-man show, Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, was an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in Iowa.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5"Dead white Nazis, dead black drug dealers... this is not like anything we've dealt with before."No kidding Quarry! He and Boyd take an assassination job, but one that Quarry doesn't feel all together comfortable with, even though the Broker assures them it's on the up-and-up. This tale is set in 1972 against the backdrop of the McGovern/Nixon election, and it does have that time period feel. And Quarry continues to be one of my favorite "bad guy" good guys! Slowly, but surely, I'm gonna read all of his adventures!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Terrific book filled with lots of action and excitement. The Quarry series, about a sardonic hitman, first came out in the mid 1970s (although many of the novels like this one are of more recent vintage) and like a number of action series from the 1970s features a guy who honed his skills in The Vietnam War only to come back and find his life back in the States wasn't what he thought it would be. Recruited by a Broker, who acts as an intermediary, Quarry is a meticulous professional contract killer who sometimes wonders about the why's and wherefores of his contracts.
The story is firmly placed in its era because of its use of big muscle cars, the references to the type of music playing, and the long haired hippie types populating just about everywhere. This story involves McGovern's ill-fated presidential race and Southern racial tensions at the time.
Sexy, sardonic, filled with double entendres (starting with the very first sentence), explosively violent, and a lot of fun to read. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Certainly not as interesting as Lawrence Block’s Keller, Quarry is an adequate substitute if you are suffering from assassin-story deprivation. I’ve read all the Kellers and now all the Quarrys. They are both enjoyable, but Keller is a much more interesting and well-developed character.This time Quarry discovers that a second hit team has been assigned to hit the same target, a serious breach of etiquette. The target is a “future” Martin Luther King. Jr. prospect and soon Quarry is up to his pubic hairs in attractive women and KKK sheets.Fast, enjoyable read.