This collection includes books 7-9 in Max Allan Collins's Quarry Series: The Last Quarry, The First Quarry, and Quarry in the MiddleThe 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 ...