Quarry’s Deal
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Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins received the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2017, considered the pinnacle of achievement in mystery writing. He has earned an unprecedented twenty-threePrivate Eye Writers of America (PWA) Shamus Award Nominations, winning three times, twice for his Nathan Heller novels True Detective and Stolen Away. Collins is also the recipient of a PWA lifetime achievement award. His graphic novel Road to Perdition was the basis for the 2002 Academy Award–winning film. His suspense series include Nolan, Mallory, Jack and Maggie Starr, Eliot Ness, and Quarry, the latter now a Cinemax TV series. A cofounder of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, Collins has written numerous film and TV tie-in novels for series including CSI, Dark Angel, and Criminal Minds. Comics credits include the syndicated Dick Tracy strip, Batman, and his own Ms. Tree and Wild Dog. Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins. They have collaborated on twelve novels, including the popular Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery series.
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Reviews for Quarry’s Deal
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another well done Quarry novel. Not much to say that I haven't said before. It's a quick, fun read. I just love the first person voice.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quarry’s Deal is set in the swinging seventies and it opens with Quarry enjoying himself at an apartment complex in Florida, one occupied almost entirely by divorced women. Quarry has attached himself to one of these divorcees and has, to put it bluntly, enjoying himself. “This one’s name was Nancy. She was wearing a skimpy black bikini. She had short dark hair and looked like a fashion model.”
But, he is there to do work and he is surveilling a contract killer even when he is lounging around at the pool, eyeing the divorcees in their bikinis. He hopes he won’t have to kill her as he had never killed a woman before and he hadn’t counted on her looking like this. He had “no idea she radiated this aura of some goddam thing or another, some damn thing that made me want to know her, made me uncomfortable at the thought of having to kill her.”
The story takes Quarry back to the Midwest where he finds this killer (a woman no less) and tries to put together what her plan is before it is too late.
The writing is smooth and flows well. Quarry tells his story with a terrific sense of humor. It is certainly set in the seventies with the women wearing pants suits with halter tops. The story has enough action and violence to make it work as an action story. Quarry is not to be trifled with, not by amateurs and not by professionals.
At 188 pages, this book should take a lot longer to read than it does, but maybe Collins just knows how to tell a good story. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As usual, I’m reading the newly re-released Quarry’s out-of-order. No matter, it’s sometimes fun to wander through a book as a prequel.
Quarry has just set himself up as the assassin target’s best friend as he follows the hitman/woman to the target and then offers (for a substantial fee) to remove the hit from the target.
Collins has a sense of humor, and Quarry lists those types of targets who are the easiest for assassins (in order of ease): the self-important man, the man who feels the world revolves around him, e.g. politicians who can’t believe the world will go on without him. “Everybody knows it’s easier for a politician to grasp the possibility of a nuclear war ending the world than to understand that a bullet through his brain, say, could end a brilliant political career.”) Then there is anyone sitting on the board of a corporation, “there isn’t one of those assholes whose last words wouldn’t be, ‘there must be some mistake.’ “ “Religious people are easy marks, too. They all think the fix is in.”
Another quote that I liked: “She had the expression of the disillusioned social worker: compassion slowly curdling to boredom or worse.”
One of the better in the Quarry series, especially as it mixes genders in the hit business.