Bøker av Max Allan Collins

Happily retired, Quarry turns down a million dollars to asassinate a presidential candidate. But it's not the sort of job you can just walk away from...

It's not unusual to see bodies on the set of an adult film, but when they're dead bodies, Quarry has his work cut out for him.

In the mid-20th century, Mickey Spillane was the sensation of not just mystery fiction but publishing itself. His fiction came to the screen in a series of films that include Kiss Me Deadly and The Girl Hunters, with the author himself playing his private eye. These films, and TV series starring Darren McGavin and Stacy Keach, are examined here by Spillane experts. Included are cast and crew listings, biographical entries on key persons, and a lengthy interview with Spillane.

Hammer accompanies a politician to Moscow, where he is arrested by the KGB and imprisoned. He quickly escapes, but back in the States, the government is none too happy. Russia demands his return to stand charges, and various government agencies are following him.

When two Godfathers set out to bump each other off, guess who winds up with both contracts. This title presents a tale of warring crime families.

Presents a 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.

Dr. Temperance Brennan, a highly skilled forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones.

Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned from Vietnam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. When he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too.