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Author interview with Max Allan Collins After an absence of more than two years, New York Times-bestselling author Max Allan Collins will bring back one of his most popular characters, the ruthless professional killer known only as “Quarry,” in THE WRONG QUARRY. Since his debut in 1976, Quarry has appeared in 10 novels and inspired a feature film, The Last Lullaby, starring Tom Sizemore and Sasha Alexander. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Max, welcome over to The Book Plank and for taking your time to answer these few questions. BP: First off, could you tell us as to who Max Allan Collins is? What are you hobbies, likes and dislikes? MAC: I’m very lucky in that all of my hobbies have turned into my work.  As a kid, I drew comics and wrote fiction, and I grew up to write them both professionally.  I played rock ‘n’ roll in high school and went on to play semi-professionally for many decades.  I loved movies from childh

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