Quarry in the Middle

Quarry might just be one beautiful bastard, even if he manages to lose a few teeth along the way. The women certainly don’t seem to mind. Whether he goes for the more experienced ones, or the younger ones who managed to knock themselves on the head with the beauty branch, right before their mouths o......more

Quarry is a hitman who used to work for a man named the Broker who arranged such jobs working out of the Quad Cities, a collection of towns in Iowa and Illinois divided by the Mississippi River. The Broker is no longer with us, for reasons that need not concern us here. However Quarry has the Broker......more

This is one case where you CAN judge a book by it’s cover. There’s a menacing looking guy with a table full of booze and a couple of scantily clad beautiful women clutching weapons. What more do you need to know? Collins has been delivering some quality contract murder stories with his run of Quarry......more

Jul21 review: Armed with The Broker's list, Quarry sells his services as a counter-assassin in a typical tale. I'm not fond of the somewhat graphic sex scenes, but the rest was fun. Still, I'm knocking this down from 4 stars to 3. Sep15 review:Another new audio book from Skyboat Media, read by Steph......more

Most readers of hard-nosed crime fiction will look at this book on the bookstore shelf and immediately salivate. The cover is sexy, the author’s name carries top cachet. You hold this book and Bogart’s voice wafts through the room, Peter Lorre’s snarly low tenor whine presents itself. You know you’r......more