Quarry’s Climax

Author’s Note

Despite its period setting, Quarry’s Climax is not exactly an historical novel, and does not intend to suggest real people or events.

The Cinemax TV series, Quarry, imagined an expanded origin story for my character, including substituting for my Midwestern setting a backdrop of Memphis, Tennessee. By way of acknowledgment, and as a hat tip to writers Graham Gordy and Michael D. Fuller (who developed the show based upon my novels), I have taken Quarry to Memphis in these pages. While I spent a week in that city during the shooting of the series pilot, Quarry’s Climax takes place in the Memphis of my imagination, the geography at times suggesting the real town and in other instances the needs of this narrative.

I’d like to acknowledge the following articles: “When It Was Hip to Be Square” by Michael Finger, Memphis Magazine (2001); “The History of George’s Disco” by Vincent Astor, Memphis Vive Magazine (no date given); “The Night They Raided the Highland Strip” by David Dawson, The Memphis Flyer (2001); “Fear and Loathing on the Highland Strip” by Patrick Lantrip, The Daily Helmsman (2013); and the Historic-Memphis web site, as well as numerous other Internet sources dealing with Memphis and other topics.

My thanks to Graham and Michael, and to my wife and inhouse editor Barb, as well as my agent, Dominick Abel, and Quarry’s friend, editor and publisher, Charles Ardai, without whom the revival of interest in a character I created in 1971 is unlikely to have occurred.