Quarry Books in Order

Hitman Quarry completes an assignment in a shabby river town, then realizes he has been manipulated. To discover who used him and why, the hired killer must investigate the very murder he was paid to commit.

Quarry follows another contract killer from Florida to the Midwest as part of his campaign against fellow assassins. An illegal casino and a dangerous female opponent complicate his plans, mixing professional rivalry with a risky personal attraction.

After Quarry's employer leaves the business, a rival seeks control and puts the assassin in danger. Information Quarry possesses becomes a valuable weapon, while a woman at a swimming pool is drawn into the resulting struggle.

A film production becomes a lethal trap when cast and crew discover they are confined with a serial killer. Quarry must navigate the murders surrounding an adult-movie set, where ordinary professional danger gives way to an unpredictable threat.

Retired and married, Quarry refuses a million-dollar offer to assassinate a presidential candidate. Turning down such a contract brings dangerous consequences, forcing the former hitman to protect his new life against people accustomed to buying death.

Three short stories and the novel Primary Target bring together assignments from the career of Quarry, a professional killer. The collection follows his dealings with violent clients and targets, exploring the hazards of murder for hire.

Retired hitman Quarry accepts one final assignment from a wealthy media owner, expecting a familiar job. His target is a young librarian, and uncertainty about why she must die complicates his return to killing.

Quarry begins his career as a contract killer with an assignment on a college campus. His target is a professor involved with a young student, but the affair conceals more serious reasons someone wants him dead.

Two rival crime bosses each hire Quarry to eliminate the other, leaving the professional assassin holding both contracts. Caught between warring families, he must navigate their competing demands and the dangers surrounding the double assignment.

A betrayal by his wife helped turn Vietnam veteran Quarry into a contract killer. Years later, an unexpected encounter with his ex brings his personal past into the violent world he has learned to survive.

Quarry protects intended victims by killing their hired assassins and tracing the people who commissioned the hits. A case involving a missing cheerleader's grieving family makes him question whether he has identified the right target.

When Quarry's employer becomes an assassination target, the hitman travels south to eliminate a suspected traitor. Surrounded by vice and shifting loyalties, he must decide whom to trust and who actually needs to die.

Quarry accepts a political contract to kill a civil rights minister shortly before a presidential election. Discovering that a racist group also wants the man dead makes him question the motives of those who hired him.

In 1975 Memphis, adult-magazine publisher Max Climer faces campaigns against his business and a hired killer targeting his life. Quarry steps in to protect him, investigating threats surrounding the magazine, strip club, and expanding entertainment empire.

Quarry learns that someone has put a contract on his own life, reversing his usual role in the assassination business. Tracking the hired killer leads toward his past and a possible connection with a former lover.

Retired hitman Quarry is approached by a true-crime writer planning a book about him. When killers arrive soon afterward, he revisits his violent past to identify the threat and confront enemies who have not forgotten him.

Quarry's retirement ends when his recently discovered daughter disappears, abducted by the subject of her true-crime writing. With help from a woman in his past, the aging hitman returns to the violence he thought he had left behind.

An old high-school girlfriend invites Quarry back to his Ohio hometown for their fiftieth reunion. The retired hitman hopes to revisit his life before Vietnam, but flying bullets turn the gathering into another encounter with his violent past.