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YOU’RE CORDIALLY INVITED TO CELEBRATE
50 YEARS OF MURDER...

Since his first appearance in 1976, Max Allan Collins’ quintessential killer-for-hire, Quarry, has starred in 17 novels, two films, a graphic novel, and a Cinemax TV series—and with QUARRY’S REUNION, he reaches a milestone never before achieved by any character in American crime novels: a series that has continued for 50 years.

To celebrate, MWA Grand Master Collins is taking Quarry somewhere he’s never gone before: back home, to the town in Ohio where he grew up, before his tour of duty in Vietnam and his even bloodier experiences Stateside. An old high-school girlfriend summons Quarry for his 50th reunion—but old times take a back seat when bullets start to fly. Thrilling, moving, and revealing, this new installment in Quarry’s Edgar and Shamus Award-nominated saga delivers a powerful capstone to the killer’s career—and a perfect entry point for readers new to Quarry’s story.

• First publication anywhere!
• An extraordinary milestone in mystery fiction: the first series of American crime novels that has continued for 50 years in the hands of its original author. (Agatha Christie did it in the UK with Hercule Poirot—but no American novelist ever has.)
• Our first visit ever to Quarry’s home, and our first glimpses of what he was like before the half-century he has spent as a ruthless killer.

"Violent and volatile and packed with sexuality...classic pulp fiction."

— USA Today

"Collins’ witty, hard-boiled prose would make Raymond Chandler proud."

— Entertainment Weekly

"Crime fiction aficionados are in for a treat...a neo-pulp noir classic."

— Chicago Tribune

"As cool as an Eskimo Pie on a hot summer day and as sharp as a Ginsu knife."

— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel