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.
Quarry's Vote
β Scribed by Collins, Max Allan
- Book ID
- 107845459
- Publisher
- Perfect Crime Books
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Series
- Quarry 5
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781935797012
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β¦ Synopsis
When retired hitman Quarry turns down a million bucks to murder a presidential candidate, he becomes a "loose end" that the conspirators need to tie off. With his peaceful life in ruins, Quarry launches his own campaign--for vengeance. A new edition, with afterword by the author, of the fifth book in Max Allan Collins's cult classic series. They don't come harder-boiled than Quarry. "Violent and volatile and packed with sexuality . . . classic pulp fiction" (USA Today).
About the Author
Max Allan Collins, noted both for his Nate Heller detective series and as creator of Road to Perdition (basis for the Oscar-winning Tom Hanks film), has been writiing about killer-for-hire Quarry for more than thirty years. Says Booklist: "Collins remains the quintessential modern-day pulp writer."
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