Max Allan Collins
61) Come Spy With Me
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John Sand may be married, but he's not dead.
In the early 1960s, John Sand just retired as a British secret agent.
On his honeymoon with his new wife, Stacey Boldt - the heiress to a Texas oil fortune - they are interrupted by an unfriendly blast from the past.
Now an executive with Boldt Oil in Houston, Sand finds himself, and his bride, pulled back into the world of espionage when JFK himself recruits him for a dangerous job in Cuba.
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John Sand, the former MI6 agent upon whom a certain fictional spy was based, is keeping a secret from his new bride, Stacey – he has been tracking the supposedly dead Jake Lonestarr, her Texas oil tycoon father's traitorous business partner.
When Stacey disappears, is Lonestarr or Las Vegas godfather Anthony Morello – a man with a big grudge - responsible? Or is it the shadowy figures at the new international spy agency that keep trying to recruit...
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Quarry's War volume 1
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Former U.S. Marine sniper Quarry has found a new vocation as a professional assassin. But when his latest contact turns out to be an old acquaintance from his military days, the fresh-faced hit man finds himself battling against his own conscience as secrets from the past start to reveal themselves. Written by renowned comics writer and author of the Quarry novel series, Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Batman) and illustrated by Szymon Kudranski...
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The world's greatest living spy…
…May have just found a group of men he can't kill.
The world thinks John Sand's retired. No longer heading into the MI6 offices, he's an energy company executive. He's got a nice corner office, lavish dinners to attend, and no bullets flying at his head…yet.
The truth is much deadlier.
Sand's hunting stolen uranium, and he knows if he doesn't find it soon, he'll be hunting something very different…a nuclear...
66) The wrong quarry
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"Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them--and then removing that problem as well. So far he's rid the world of nobody who would be missed. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Does the hitman's hitman have the wrong...
67) Quarry
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"The assignment was simple: stake out the man's house and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay"--Page [4] of cover.
69) Tough tender
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"Sometimes you bury the past. Sometimes it buries you. Every professional thief knows you never return to the scene of a crime. But what if you have no choice? In this intense heist story - appear in bookstores for the first time in three decades - MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins brings veteran theif Nolan and his young partner in crime Jon back to rob the same bank they targeted in their debut novel, Two For The Money, at the behest of an embezzling...
70) Quarry's cut
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It’s normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when they’re dead bodies – and the cast and crew discover they’re trapped in a house with a serial killer – Quarry’s got his work cut out for him.
NOW A CINEMAX TELEVISION SERIES!
The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels...
NOW A CINEMAX TELEVISION SERIES!
The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels...
71) Quarry's deal
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"Behind the doors of an illegal casino, will Quarry find Lady Luck or a lady killer? As part of his plan to target other hitmen, Quarry follows one from steamy Florida to the sober Midwest. But this killer isn't a man at all -- she's a sloe-eyed beauty, as dangerous in bed as she is deadly on the job. Has Quarry finally met his match?"--Page 4 of cover.
73) Deadly beloved
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TILL DEATH DO US PART
Marcy Addwatter killed her husband – there’s no question about that. Shot him dead in the motel room where he was trysting with a blonde hooker. Shot the hooker, too.
But where the cops might see an open-and-shut case, private eye Michael Tree –Ms. Michael Tree – sees a conspiracy. For Ms. Tree, digging into it could mean digging her own grave... and digging up her own murdered...
Marcy Addwatter killed her husband – there’s no question about that. Shot him dead in the motel room where he was trysting with a blonde hooker. Shot the hooker, too.
But where the cops might see an open-and-shut case, private eye Michael Tree –Ms. Michael Tree – sees a conspiracy. For Ms. Tree, digging into it could mean digging her own grave... and digging up her own murdered...
74) Girl most likely
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In a small Midwest town, twenty-eight-year-old Krista Larson has made her mark as the youngest female police chief in the country. She's learned from the best: her father, Keith, a decorated former detective. But as accustomed as they are to the relative quiet of their idyllic tourist town, things quickly turn with Krista's ten-year high school reunion. With the out-of-towners holed up in a lakefront lodge, it doesn't take long to stir up old grudges...
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Rock Island, Illinois -- 1929. Michael O'Sullivan is a good father and a family man -- and also the chief enforcer for John Looney, the town's Irish Godfather of crime. As Looney's "Angel of Death," O'Sullivan has done the bidding of Chicago gangsters Al Capone and Frank Nitti as well -- but when a gangland execution spells tragedy for the O'Sullivan family, a grieving father and his adolescent son find themselves on a winding road of treachery, revenge,...
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From a foxhole on Guadalcanal, shared with former champ Barney Ross, to the glitzy underworld of Hollywood in the ’40s, Nate Heller fights his memories and “the outfit.” Something happened at the Canal, something Heller’s blocking out. What he can’t block, though, is the wound he received -- the million-dollar wound, the one that got him home. Back in the States, and back in Chicago, he becomes involved once again with Frank Nitti during
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