This collection includes books 7–9 in Max Allan Collins’s Quarry Series: The Last Quarry, The First Quarry, and Quarry in the Middle The Last Quarry: The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hit man into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one—why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead? And why in hell does he care? The First Quarry: Crime fiction listeners know Quarry—the ruthless killer for hire from Max Allan Collins’ acclaimed novels—but where did Quarry’s story start? For the first time ever, the bestselling 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. Quarry in the Middle: First there was The Last Quarry, then there was The First Quarry—now look who’s caught in the middle. The enigmatic hit man Quarry—star of seven celebrated novels and an award-winning feature film (The Last Lullaby)—is back in this violent, steamy tale of warring crime families. When two godfathers set out to bump each other off, guess who winds up with both contracts …