I swung my body around, ribs complaining just a little, but the hell with them. Does it hurt? I’m gonna work it over here. She asked, almost shouting, Could you switch off the bedside lamp?Ĭan you watch me from there? she yelled sweetly. Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple burst out of the speakers like the thunder had returned. She was naked as she walked over to the shelves with the sound system and picked out a homemade cassette tape and inserted it into the machine. What kind of makeup, I thought, requires a girl taking off her panties?

Nobody does it better than Max Allan Collins. a stirring conclusion.Ĭollins makes it sound as though it really happened.Ĭollins tells his cynical little tale with plenty of tough wit a knack for capturing period with a few succinct details he also has a pithy way with ’s every bit as mean as you want it to be.Ĭrisp and brisk, with an economy that doesn’t sacrifice creating an evocative world.fast, sharp and brutal. A consummate thriller from one of the new masters of the genre.įor fans of the hardboiled crime novel.this is powerful and highly enjoyable reading, fast moving and very, very tough.Įntertaining. a sharply focused action story that keeps the reader guessing till the slam-bang ending. I savored every turn.Ĭollins has a gift for creating low-life believable characters. Rippling with brutal violence and surprising sexuality. Max Allan Collins like no other writer.Ĭollins breaks out a really good one, knocking over the hard-boiled competition (Parker and Leonard for sure, maybe even Puzo) with a one-two punch: a feisty storyline told bittersweet and wry.nice and taut.the book is unputdownable. This book is about as perfect a page turner as you’ll find.īristling with suspense and sexuality, this book is a welcome addition to the Hard Case Crime library.Ī total delight.fast, surprising, and well-told. Max Allan Collins is the closest thing we have to a 21st century Mickey Spillane and.will please any fan of oldschool, hardboiled crime fiction.įew people alive today can tell a story better than Max Allan Collins. No one can twist you through a maze with as much intensity and suspense as Max Allan Collins.Ĭollins never misses a beat.All the stand-up pleasures of dime-store pulp with a beguiling level of complexity.Ĭollins has an outwardly artless style that conceals a great deal of art. Raves For the Work of of MAX ALLAN COLLINS!Ĭrime fiction aficionados are in for a treat.a neo-pulp noir classic.

The Wrong Quarry by Max Allan Collins