Plunder Squad A Parker Novel

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226772912
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plunder Squad written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder, and dove off his chair to the left.” When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of seasoned professionals can't guarantee against human error in a high-risk scam. Can an art dealer with issues unload a truck of paintings with Parker’s aid? Or will the heist end up too much of a human interest story, as luck runs out before Parker can get in on the score? “Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.”—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly “Westlake knows precisely how to grab a reader, draw him or her into the story, and then slowly tighten his grip until escape is impossible.”—Washington Post Book World

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226772967
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deadly Edge written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes south. Soon Parker finds himself—and his woman, Claire—menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hippies. Parker has a score to settle while Claire’s armed with her first rifle—and they’re both ready to usher in the end of the Age of Aquarius. “Richard Stark’s Parker novels . . . are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time.” — John Banville, Bookforum “The Parkers read with the speed of pulp while unfolding with an almost Nabovokian wit and flair.” — Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226770605
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backflash written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the publication of Butcher's Moon in 1974, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone." And readers waited. But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parker's as bad as they come. According to Westlake, one day in 1997, "suddenly, he came back from the dead, with a chalky prison pallor"--and the novels that followed showed that neither Parker nor Stark had lost a step. Backflash finds Parker checking out the scene on a Hudson River gambling boat. Parker's no fan of either relaxation or risk, however, so you can be sure he's playing with house money--and he's willing to do anything to tilt the odds in his favor. Featuring a great cast of heisters, a striking setting, and a new introduction by Westlake's close friend and writing partner, Lawrence Block, this classic Parker adventure deserve a place of honor on any crime fan's bookshelf.

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226770656
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Firebreak written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parker and his team attempt to get past a mansion's security and heist a Montana millionaire's stolen paintings. No matter how untamed the wilderness, Parker's guaranteed to be the most dangerous predator around.

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226770648
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flashfire written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Parker’s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital—the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. But cash isn’t everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and a collection of priceless paintings. In Flashfire, Parker’s in West Palm Beach, competing with a crew that has an unhealthy love of explosions. When things go sour, Parker finds himself shot and trapped—and forced to rely on a civilian to survive. Firebreak takes Parker to a palatial Montana "hunting lodge" where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen old masters—which will fetch Parker a pretty penny if his team can just get it past the mansion’s tight security. The forests of Montana are an inhospitable place for a heister when well-laid plans fall apart, but no matter how untamed the wilderness, Parker’s guaranteed to be the most dangerous predator around.

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1849166242
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breakout written by Richard Stark and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even Parker makes mistakes. Locked up in a prison from which no one has ever escaped, it's only a matter of time before the law uncovers his real name - and his extensive criminal past. To get out, Parker must take on the only accomplices he can find - yet his fellow convicts demand a price: help with another job. Their plan has too many weak links. And Parker isn't a man who likes complications. But with a big potential payoff and no other options, Parker is willing to chance it, just this once.

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648579X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ask the Parrot written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coldblooded criminal known as Parker tries, and fails, to stay under the radar in rural New England: “Nobody does the noir thriller better than Stark.” —San Diego Union-Tribune In Ask the Parrot, the followup to Nobody Runs Forever, ruthless thief Parker is back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he is forced to work with a small-town recluse nursing a grudge against the racetrack that fired him. Even in hiding, Parker manages to get up to no good. It’ll be a deadly day at the races . . . “Richard Stark’s Parker crime novels are the ultimate page-turners.” —Jonathan Ames, The Boston Globe “Parker is a blunt instrument of a human being.” —John Hodgman, Parade “Often funny, laced with Stark’s brutally morbid humor . . . fast-moving, tense scenes that drip with potential violence before, inevitably, exploding into actual violence.” —Christopher Bahn, AV Club

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226772993
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comeback written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the bloodbath of Butcher’s Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone." And for nearly twenty-five years, he stayed away, while readers waited. But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parker’s as bad as they come. According to Westlake, one day in 1997, “suddenly, he came back from the dead, with a chalky prison pallor”—and the resulting novel, Comeback, showed that neither Stark nor Parker had lost a single step. Knocking over a highly lucrative religious revival show, Parker reminds us that not all criminals don ski masks—some prefer to hide behind the wings of fallen angels.

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340183045
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plunder Squad written by Richard Stark and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226772837
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handle written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. With double-crosses and double-dealings from the word go, Parker knows the line between success and failure on this score would be exactly the length of the barrel of a .38.