The The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins - ISBN: 9781835411780
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Before Quarry was legend, he had a first hit: campus kill.

The The First Quarry

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    13 January 2026

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Summary

The very first assignment of the legendary hit man known as Quarry, star of the Cinemax TV series, a feature film, a comic book, and 16 novels!

Discover the never-before-told story of Quarry’s first job: infiltrating a college campus and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sins…

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS

Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Allan Collins’ acclai…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781835411780
ISBN-10:1835411789
Author:Max Allan Collins
Publisher:Titan Books Ltd
Imprint:Hard Case Crime
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:13 January 2026
Weight:220g
Dimensions:22mm x 130mm x 198mm
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The The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins - ISBN: 9781835411780
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Critics Review

Acclaim for THE LAST QUARRY


“Violent and volatile and packed with sexuality…classic pulp fiction.”
— USA Today


“Collins’ witty, hard-boiled prose would make Raymond Chandler proud.”
— Entertainment Weekly


“As cool as an Eskimo Pie on a hot summer day and as sharp as a Ginsu knife.”
— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

About The Author

Max Allan Collins

MAX ALLAN COLLINS was named a Grand Master in 2017 by the Mystery Writers of America. He is a three-time winner of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Life Achievement award (2006), the Eye.

His graphic novel Road to Perdition (1998) became the Academy Award-winning film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Tom Hanks. His other comics credits include the syndicated strip Dick Tracy, Batman, and (with artist Terry Beatty) his own Ms. Tree and Wild Dog.

He has completed fourteen Mike Hammer novels begun by the late Mickey Spillane, and his Hammer audio novel The Little Death with Stacy Keach won a 2011 Audie. Recently, he adapted the first of his Nathan Heller novels into a ten-part audio drama, True Noir.

For five years, he was sole licensing writer for TV’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, creating best-selling novels, graphic novels, and video games. His movie tie-in novels have appeared on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists, including Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One, and American Gangster.

Max has written and directed two documentaries and seven feature films, including the Lifetime movie Mommy (1996); and he scripted The Expert, a 1995 HBO World Premiere, as well as the film-festival favorite The Last Lullaby (2009) based on his innovative Quarry novels, which were also adapted as a 2016 TV series by Cinemax, for which Max wrote two scripts. Collins’ properties have also been optioned by Skydance, Lionsgate, and CBS Films. His most recent self-scripted/directed indie films are Mickey Spillane’s Encore for Murder (2022), Blue Christmas (2023), and Death by Fruitcake (2024).

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