![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quarry makes his usual deal, but something doesn't seem right about it. This time he's in a small town in Missouri, where someone has put out a contract on a dance instructor. Instead of hitting people on whom there's a contract, Quarry now cuts a deal with the target and will, for a fee, hit the hitters. If you've been keeping up with the books, you know that Quarry is no longer employed by the Broker and is now on his own with a new venture. Which brings us to The Wrong Quarry, the latest novel to feature the Viet Nam vet and professional hit man. (I'm not counting the collection of short stories.) We might even be seeing a Cinemax series based on the novels. It didn't, and there have been four more since then. I was happy to see it, but I hoped the title didn't prove prophetic. The next one didn't come out until ten years later, and it was almost twenty years before Quarry was revived for Hard Case Crime in The Last Quarry. While I enjoyed Bait Money and its sequel, Blood Money, I thought Collins really hit his stride with the Quarry series, the first three books of which appeared in 1976, with the fourth to follow in 1977. ![]() I read Bait Money back in 1973 when it came out in paperback from Curtis Books, and I've been reading right along ever since. I haven't been reading Max Allan Collins' books as long as I have those of Lawrence Block, but it's close. ![]()
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