The First Quarry

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS

Crime 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 feature film

The Last Lullaby).

But where did Quarry's story start? For first time ever, the best-selling author of

ROAD TO PERDITION takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told 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…