Killing Quarry

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For various reasons, the Quarry novels have jumped around in time, sometimes taking place during the protagonist’s “hitman” years of the early to mid-1970s, others dealing with the later ’70s and ’80s and even occasionally thereafter.

Readers concerned about chronology may find it useful to know that Killing Quarry takes place a year or so before Quarry’s Vote (aka Primary Target).

M.A.C.

When you get to the point of losing track of how many people you’ve killed, you might want to take a moment and reevaluate.

That’s where my head was at, on the drive from my A-frame in Wisconsin on Paradise Lake to Naperville, Illinois, where someone I didn’t know stood a good chance of being on the wrong end of my nine-millimeter Browning automatic.

But if I said I felt compelled to stop using murder as a tool of my trade, I would be lying. And guilt or remorse had nothing to do with it, either. It was everything else that went with my work that was bringing me down — the business shit, like explaining to somebody they’ve been targeted for death. And the boring parts, like when the background gets laid in, in a book.

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