Max Allan Collins
Autor(a) de Road to Perdition
About the Author
Max Allen Collins was born in 1948 in Muscatine, Iowa. He is a two-time winner of the Private Eye Writer's of America's Shamus Award for his Nathaniel Heller historical thrillers "True Detective" and "Stolen Away". Collins also wrote the Dick Tracy comic strip begining in 1977 and ending in the mostrar mais early 1990s. He has contributed to a number of other comics, including Batman. Collins created his first independent feature film, Mommy, following a nightmarish experience as screenwriter on the cable movie The Expert. Collins has been contracted by DC Comics to write three tie-ins to his critically acclaimed graphic novel "The Road to Perdition", which was adapted into the feature film. Author of other such move tie-in bestsellers as "In the Line of Fire" and "Air Force One", he is also the screenwriter/director of the cult favorite suspense films "Mommie" and "Mommie's Day". (Publisher Provided) Max Allen Collins was born in Muscatine, Iowa on March 3, 1948. His graphic novel Road to Perdition, published in 1998, is the basis of the Academy Award-winning 2002 film starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Daniel Craig. His other works include Road to Purgatory, Road to Paradise, Return to Perdition, Bye Bye, Baby, and Target Lancer. He won the Shamus awards for True Detective in 1983 and Stolen Away in 1991. He is completing a number of Mike Hammer novels begun by the late Mickey Spillane. He has collaborated with his wife Barbara Collins on three novels and numerous short stories. Their Antiques Flee Market won the Romantic Times Best Humorous Mystery Novel award in 2009. His comics credits include the syndicated strip Dick Tracy (1977-1993), Ms. Tree, Batman; and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, based on the hit TV series for which he has also written ten novels. He has written tie-in books for several movies including Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One, and American Gangster, which won the Best Novel Scribe Award in 2008 from the International Association of Tie-in Writers. His non-fiction works include The History of Mystery and Men's Adventure Magazines, which won Anthony Award. He is also an independent filmmaker. He has written and directed five features and two documentaries, including the Lifetime movie Mommy and the sequel, Mommy's Day. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Max Allan Collins
Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago (2018) 97 exemplares
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern… (2020) 81 exemplares
Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires: Erotic Tales of Crime and Passion (2002) — Editor & Contributor — 11 exemplares
NYPD Blue: Blue Beginning (Penguin Readers (Graded Readers)) (English and Spanish Edition) (1997) 9 exemplares
The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Vol. 2: The Little Death (2009) — Autor — 7 exemplares
Mickey Spillane on Screen: A Complete Study of the Television and Film Adaptations (2012) 6 exemplares
Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin: Erotic Tales of Crime and Passion (2003) — Editor & Contributor — 6 exemplares
Elvgren Girls I 5 exemplares
Batman Vol. 1 #408 4 exemplares
Batman Vol. 1 #410 4 exemplares
Batman Vol. 1 #409 3 exemplares
Batman Vol. 1 #411 3 exemplares
Die Lover, Die! 3 exemplares
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #4 2 exemplares
Quarry's War #1 2 exemplares
The Complete Max Collins/Rick Fletcher Dick Tracy #1 2 exemplares
Mommy [1995 film] — Director — 2 exemplares
Die Mumie kehrt zurück. Der Roman zum Film. 2 exemplares
Robber's Roost 2 exemplares
Johnny Dynamite: Explosive Pre-Code Crime Comics - The Complete Adventures of Pete Morisi's Wild Man of Chicago (2020) 2 exemplares
The Sound of One Hand Clapping 2 exemplares
Elvgren girls 2 exemplares
Fallout {short story} 1 exemplar
A Pebble For Papa 1 exemplar
The Night Of Their Lives 1 exemplar
Batman 1/1988 1 exemplar
A Long Time Dead [short story] 1 exemplar
A Matter of Principal 1 exemplar
Batman 3/1989 1 exemplar
Puzzle of Bones 1 exemplar
Ms. Tree's thrilling detective adventures 1 exemplar
Max Collins and Terry Beatty's Ms. Tree 3-D 1 exemplar
Ms. Tree quarterly 1 exemplar
Ms. Tree special 1 exemplar
True Crime (Nathan Heller, #2) 1 exemplar
Sand's War (A Sand Shocker) 1 exemplar
Wild Dog #2 1 exemplar
Guest Services 1 exemplar
Fly Paper (Nolan 3) 1 exemplar
Batman - Os Intocáveis 1 exemplar
Ms. Tree Quarterly (Issue #3) 1 exemplar
un linceul pour le verseau 1 exemplar
CSI: Cold Burn / Binding Ties / Killing Game 1 exemplar
Hush Money (Nolan 4) 1 exemplar
Mommy [AB] 1 exemplar
Hard Cash (Nolan 5) 1 exemplar
Scratch Fever (Nolan 6) 1 exemplar
Hunger 1 exemplar
the dick tracy casebook 1 exemplar
The best of crime and detective tv 1 exemplar
Flowers for Bill O'Reilly: Memorial Day 1 exemplar
Mike Mist Minute Mist-Eries 1 exemplar
DC Prestige n. 25: Batman: Gli intoccabili 1 exemplar
Dick Tracy: The Ghost of Itchy 1 exemplar
50th Anniversary Dick Tracy 1 exemplar
The Best of the Tribune Company, vol. 2 1 exemplar
Dick Tracy: The Russian Exchange 1 exemplar
Ms. Tree 3-D 1 exemplar
Batman n. 03 1 exemplar
Batman n. 02 1 exemplar
Batman n. 01 1 exemplar
To Live and Spy In Berlin (John Sand, #3) 1 exemplar
The Black Mountain 1 exemplar
Ms. Tree Quarterly #1 1 exemplar
CSI: Serial #2 1 exemplar
CSI: Serial #3 1 exemplar
CSI: Serial #1 1 exemplar
ESTRADA PARA PERDICAO - VOL 3 1 exemplar
CSI: Serial #5 1 exemplar
CSI: Serial #4 1 exemplar
Quarry's War Vol. 1 1 exemplar
The Cold Case 1 exemplar
I Had Bigfoot's Baby! 1 exemplar
Mike Hammer: King of the Weeds 1 exemplar
CSI: Bad Rap Issue #1 1 exemplar
Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger 1 exemplar
Thrilling Adventure Strips #10 1 exemplar
Chicago Mob Wars 1 exemplar
The Best of the Tribune Co. #2 1 exemplar
Thrilling Adventure Strips #6 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels (2012) 247 exemplares
Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores (2017) — Contribuidor — 191 exemplares
The Further Adventures of Batman, Volume 2: Featuring the Penguin (1992) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Dailies & Sundays, Volume 01: 1931-1933 (2006) — Introdução, algumas edições — 92 exemplares
By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2010) — Contribuidor — 85 exemplares
In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero (2012) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
Writing the Private Eye Novel: A Handbook by the Private Eye Writers of America (1997) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Chicago Blues: A Collection of Crime Stories about the Real Windy City (2007) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 55 exemplares
Deadly Allies: Private Eye Writers of America/Sisters in Crime Collaborative Anthology (1992) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
At the Scene of the Crime: Forensic Mysteries from Today's Best Writers (2008) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Mean Streets: The Second Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1986) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Greatest Hits: Original Stories of Hitmen, Hired Guns, and Private Eyes (2005) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
The Eyes Have It: The First Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1984) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition (1992) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Eye for Justice: Third "Private Eye" Writers of America Anthology (1988) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem, and Suspense (2009) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Justice for Hire: The Fourth Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1990) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition (1993) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition (1996) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Encore for Murder (The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Vol. 3) (2011) — Autor, algumas edições — 5 exemplares
Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror (2019) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Culhane, Patrick
Allan, Barbara - Data de nascimento
- 1948-03-03
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Muscatine, Iowa, USA
- Locais de residência
- Muscatine, Iowa, USA
- Educação
- University of Iowa
- Ocupações
- mystery writer
- Organizações
- The Private Eye Writers of America (past president)
Western Fictioneers - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Herodotus Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Historical Mysteries (2002)
Shamus Award (The Eye for Lifetime Achievement, 2006)
Scribe Award (Grandmaster, Faust Award, 2021) - Agente
- Ross Harris
Membros
Críticas
“Ask not who you can kill for your country…”
Quarry gets married again! And his wife is expecting!
And then, his past pays him a visit…
Someone wants to hire Quarry to assassinate Donald Trump, I mean ‘Preston Freed’. When he says no, bad things happen. But Quarry is badder, and he’s pissed! And he wants revenge!
A fast read, lots of Quarry being a bad ass, and ultimately, he gets what he seeks! And, there is more than one way to assassinate a person! A good fifth book in this series!… (mais)
Quarry gets married again! And his wife is expecting!
And then, his past pays him a visit…
Someone wants to hire Quarry to assassinate Donald Trump, I mean ‘Preston Freed’. When he says no, bad things happen. But Quarry is badder, and he’s pissed! And he wants revenge!
A fast read, lots of Quarry being a bad ass, and ultimately, he gets what he seeks! And, there is more than one way to assassinate a person! A good fifth book in this series!… (mais)
I cannot fault this book in any way. It is a very pure and classic example of the hard boiled genre. I read it because I’m looking at the Edgar nominees. Plotting was taut, characters given just enough flesh and blood. Sex and violence dolloped out with aplomb.splashes of humor and pathos raise it above the average
“Ignorance is bliss, all right, but it’s also a good way to get blown away.”
Quarry runs into Turner, an old partner whom things went sour with five years before. Following Turner, Quarry ends up on a porno film set, which is in a snowbound lodge. Two murders quickly follow. It's not the best of the Quarry books, but it is entertaining! On to #5!
Quarry runs into Turner, an old partner whom things went sour with five years before. Following Turner, Quarry ends up on a porno film set, which is in a snowbound lodge. Two murders quickly follow. It's not the best of the Quarry books, but it is entertaining! On to #5!
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 408
- Also by
- 88
- Membros
- 15,269
- Popularidade
- #1,493
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 454
- ISBN
- 1,326
- Línguas
- 22
- Marcado como favorito
- 16
Review of the Titan Books / Hard Case Crime Kindle eBook edition (November 12, 2019) published simultaneously with the Hard Case Crime paperback and Skyboat Media audiobook.
This is Quarry #15, a late entry in the long-running Quarry series (1976-2022) about an anti-hero hitman. After a betrayal, the anonymous character (Quarry simply being a trademark nickname) turned the tables on the various middleman brokers and the contract hitmen by stalking the stalkers and taking his fees from the planned victims. The prolific novelist and comic book author Max Allan Collins (761 books to his credit on Goodreads! 😲) returns periodically to this protagonist, but usually places the settings back in the late 1900s rather than aging the character up to the present day.
Thus Killing Quarry finds the hitman in retirement and running a motel resort. But suddenly it appears that he himself is being stalked by hired killers possibly in search of payback for his disruptions of the status quo. Eventually he manages to join forces with another character who is perhaps seeking retirement and together they end up infiltrating a summit of contract brokers. Will they manage to breakup the conspiracy and not turn on each other by the end? Never count Quarry out even when the chips appear to be down.
I read Killing Quarry from picking it up as a $1.99 Kindle Deal of the Day and after enjoying some recent books by Scott Von Doviak from Hard Case Crime.
Trivia and Links
Killing Quarry is part of the Hard Case Crime (2004-) series of new works, reprints, and posthumous publications of the pulp and noir crime genre founded by authors Charles Ardai and Max Phillips. GR's Listopia is not complete (as of April 2024) and the most current lists of publication can be found at Wikipedia or the Publisher's own Official Site.… (mais)