The Book Plank

The Wrong Quarry by Max Allan Collins, Quarry #11 A HIT. AND A MISS. Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them…and then removing that problem as well. So far he's rid of the world of nobody who would be missed. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Does the hitman's hitman have the wrong quarry in his sights? After almost a two year break, Max Allan Collins returns with his acclaimed Quarry series. I haven’t read the 10 books prior to this eleventh volume, but I have been slowly getting acquainted with the Hard Case Crime division run  by Titan Books, so far the books have been non-stop thrilling rides, the stories are divers but all have one thing in common, the pulpy 40, 50, 60’s feel. They are fairly short read but that is what ...

Drug of Choice by John Lange/Michael Crichton, Hard Case Crime On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other, promising the ultimate escape. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers the dark secret of Eden Island and of Advance Biosystems, the shadowy corporation underwriting it... Hard Case Crime is an imprint that I got familiar with only recently via Stephen King's Joyland . I really enjoyed this Joyland and when I was offered to review the books written by Michael Crichton under his pseudonym John Lange I immediately said yes. I know Michael Crichton best by his popular Jurassic Park book and several other technothrillers. The books that Hard Case Crime is re-issuing were written by Michael Crichton when he was still a medical student at Harvard Medical School, they go back as far as 1966, when Odd On was published . I only read Drug of Choice so far but what I have come to glimpse it that this book still coun...