ASK NOT WHO YOU CAN KILL FOR YOUR COUNTRY Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. Its not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequencesbut coming after Quarry has consequences, too.
Taking a midnight stroll along the Hudson River, Mike Hammer gets more than he bargained for: a partial corpse on an ice floe. The body is that of a butler to a millionairealso now deceased. Were both master and servant murdered? Captain Pat Chambers thinks so. But to prove it Hammer must travel to upstate New York to investigate the dead mans family, all of whom have a motive for murder.
Mike Hammer is a popular guy. At least with certain people. Several failed assassination attempts have got him riled, so apart from preventing the kidnapping of a famous New York socialite, hes hellbent on figuring out who wants him dead... someone whos desperate for the kill of his life.
THIS IS ITWHERE QUARRYS STORY ALL BEGAN. AND ANOTHER LIFE ENDED. The assignment was simple: stake out the mans home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay.
HOMICIDE BEGINS AT HOME. Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him, that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. Hed killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skill as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one-by expecting trouble. What he didnt expect was ever running into her again...
BEHIND THE DOORS OF AN ILLEGAL CASINO, WILL QUARRY FIND LADY LUCK...OR A LADY KILLER? Putting his plan in motion to target other hitmen, Quarry follows one from steamy Florida to the sober Midwest. But this killer isnt a man at allshes a sloe-eyed beauty, as dangerous in bed as she is deadly on the job. Has Quarry finally met his match?
Hammer and Velda go on vacation to a small beach town on Long Island after wrapping up the Williams case (I, the Jury). Walking romantically along the broadwalk, they witness a brutal beating at the hands of some vicious local copsHammer wades in to defend the victim. When a woman turns up nakedand deadastride the statue of a horse in the small-town city park, how she wound up this unlikely Lady Godiva is just one of the mysteries Hammer feels compelled to solve...
SOMETIMES INFORMATION CAN BE THE MOST DANGEROUS WEAPON. When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a target?
With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is hes working for.
Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent South to remove a traitor in the ranks. But in this wide-open city - with sin everywhere, and betrayal around every corner - Quarry must make the most dangerous choice of his deadly career: who to kill?
Mike Hammers partner Velda has walked out on him, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then Pat Chambers reveals that Velda is in Florida, the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn. Hammer hits the road and drives to Miami. But can he find Velda in time? And what is the connection between a murdered vice cop in Manhattan, and Velda turning gun moll?
WHEN THE DIRECTOR CALLED CUT THE KILLER DID JUST THAT Its normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when theyre dead bodiesand the cast and crew discover theyre trapped in a house with a serial killerQuarrys got his work cut out for him.
On June 6, 1944 the allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy for one of the most decisive battles of World War II. For Captain John Miller and his squad of soldiers there is a special mission. One paratrooper is missing in action, he has already lost three brothers in the war. The Pentagon decides that the fourth brother must come home safely. Saving Private Ryan is an award-winning film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks.
Notorious hitman Quarry, star of the Cinemax series, comes out of retirement for one last assignment when a media mogul hires him to assassinate a beautiful younglibrarian? Twists and sexy surprises abound as Quarry delivers justice in his violent but principled fashion.QUARRYS BACK FOR HIS TOUGHEST JOB EVER.The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead?And why in hell does he care?On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassins first appearance, bestselling author Max Allan Collins brings him back for a dark and deadly mission where the last quarry may turn out to be Quarry himself.
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 Quarrys first job: infiltrating a college campus and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sinsBIG MAN ON CAMPUSCrime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Allan Collins acclaimed novels most recently the Edgar Award finalist QUARRYS BLOOD and QUARRYS RETURN, which told the story of the assassins struggles in retirement.But where did Quarrys 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 Quarrys 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
El jefe del crimen Kurt Wallace se esfuerza por mantener su inmenso imperio del crimen, hasta que unas balas dan fin a su vida. Su muerte pone en marcha el duro enfrentamiento por apoderarse del control de sus negocios ilegales en Miami. Los CSI de Caine deben reunir las pruebas para descubrir quien es el responsable del crimen que todo Miami podria haber cometido.
