Quarry: The First Quarry : Quarry (Series #8) (Paperback)

from caklr650

My least favorite so far in the HCC series (I've read four). The character just isn't very likeable. It took about half the book before I really started to care about the main character and even then I couldn't really identify with him in any kind of likeable way. The book is also very short, und...

from ssimon2000

Gonna have a hard time finding a good noir series to follow this one (when I finish it in a few days).

from clfisha

Like your crime short and boiled hard? Then this is the book for you. A prequel to a great series looking at Quarry's 1st assassination job. A job that just climbs in complexity as the target's life gets in the wife. Mobsters, cute college girls, an angry ex-wife and even a PI all get in his way....

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This was my first foray into Collins's 'Quarry' series, which was recommended to me by someone who knew I liked the 'Parker' series by Richard Stark/Donald Westlake. Decent enough as a hardboiled thriller goes. Maybe not the best place to start the series (it's the story of Quarry's first job, ev...

from DaveWilde

This book takes place in the midwest -in the Quad Cities of Iowa to be precise. And, it charts the beginnings of one fun to read assassin, a man known only as Quarry. He, as you probably know already, came back from risking his life in Vietnam to find his wife with another man, found the other ma...