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Back in print after decades, here is the fourth cult crime novel featuring hitman Quarry by Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition). When a killer shows up at Quarry’s refuge, who is the target? Is it Quarry? Or is the assassin on a different… more

Max Allan Collins’s professional heist man Nolan takes on a treacherous backwoods family. Classic hard-boiled Collins, back in print with a new Introduction by the author.

“FRIEND, YOU’RE TALKING TO A GUY      WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD AND       THE POLICE AT HIS BACK…” Compared to the $40 million the cops think he stole, $75,000 may not sound like much. But it’s all the money in the world to the struggling … more

Someone is targeting crooked businessmen for death, and the Chicago Family turns to Nolan for help. Max Allan Collins’s hard-boiled Nolan crime novels, steeped in Vietnam-era cynicism, are back in print with new Introductions by the author.

Here is Max Allan Collins’s (Road to Perdition) cult favorite Quarry, back in print after decades and now available for the first time in a Kindle edition. With a new afterword by the author. Quarry, a hitman working with a shadowy figure c… more

The third in the cult-favorite series about a hitman named Quarry. No longer a killer-for-hire, Quarry now offers his services to people targeted by other hitmen. In this case, the assassin is a beautiful woman who may be as deadly at the g… more

When retired hitman Quarry turns down a million bucks to murder a presidential candidate, he becomes a “loose end” that the conspirators need to tie off. With his peaceful life in ruins, Quarry launches his own campaign—for vengeance. A ne… more

“Sweet Little Hands” was written in 2000 for one of the Flesh & Blood anthologies edited by Jeff Gelb and Max Allan Collins. I included it in the omnibus collection of my own short fiction, Enough Rope, so if you already own that book, or… more

BIG MAN ON CAMPUSCrime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Allan Collins’ acclaimed novels – most recently THE LAST QUARRY, which told the story of the assassin’s final assignment (and was the basis for the f… more

Lawrence Block, in Keller by a Nose,” asks what obsession holds more hazards than betting on the ponies. The answer will surprise you…Max Allan Collins’s “That Kind of Nag” proves that it’s bad to play the wrong horse, but worse to pick t… more

THE UNTOUCHABLES HADNT PREPARED NESS FOR THISAfter slamming the door on Capone, Eliot Ness and the Untouchables became legend. Now that’s in the past, and Ness travels solo through Depression-ravaged America to clean up a battered town call… more

Return of a femme fatale. Beautiful, homicidal Julie has one lethal solution for every problem. And now Nolan and his sometime sidekick Jon have gotten on Julie’s “problem” list. If a pair of out-of-town hitmen can’t do the job, Julie will … more

The original novel in Max Allan Collins’s series about professional thief Nolan. The death of a friend’s daughter leads Nolan to a small Illinois college town where the mob has murderous rivals in the drug trade. Says The Big Book of Noir: … more

BECAUSE 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. He’d killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover… more

In Kiss and Kill, eighth in Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett’s boundary- breaking Hot Blood erotic horror anthology series, readers are sure to be tied up in strings by 16 thrilling tales of erotic horror that will leave them bound ever tighte… more

QUARRY’S 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 assignmen… more

In midtown Manhattan, Mike Hammer, recovering from a near-fatal mix-up with the Mob, runs into drug dealers assaulting a young hospital messenger. He saves the kid, but the muggers are not so lucky. Hammer considers the rescue a one-off, bu… more

The taut, final crime novel in Max Allan Collins’s Nolan series. Both Nolan and his friend Jon have retired from the dangerous game of robbery. But a backwoods hoodlum named Cole Comfort kidnaps Nolan’s girlfriend and demands he pull one fi… more

THE UNTOUCHABLES WAS ONLY THE BEGINNINGIn 1929, Eliot Ness put away Alfonse “Scarface”Capone and became the biggest living legend this side of law and order. Now it’s 1935. With the Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depr… more

“Fascinating reading for true-crime buffs and mystery fans alike.” —Max Allan Collins Known as the greatest detective in the world, Ellis Parker was the “American Sherlock Holmes” who solved ninety-eight percent of the murders he pursued…. more