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The First Quarry

Max Allan Collins

Publisher: Titan Books

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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' acclaimed novels – most recently the Edgar Award finalist QUARRY'S BLOOD and QUARRY'S RETURN, which told the story of the assassin's struggles in retirement.
But where did Quarry's story start? In THE FIRST QUARRY, the best-selling author of ROAD TO PERDITION takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry's first job: infiltrating a college town and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sins…
Available since: 09/09/2025.
Print length: 224 pages.

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