Quarry's List
Max Allan Collins, the author of many crime and detective novels, has been nominated fifteen times for the Shamus award for best private-eye fiction and has won twice with two historical novels featuring Nate Heller. He created he graphic novel on which the Oscar-winning film Road to Perdition was based. But long before Heller,and long before Perdition, when Collins was a student at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, he created Quarry, the assassin-for-hire who quickly became a cult favorite among fans of hard-boiled fiction.