The Black Ice Score A Parker Novel

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226772810
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Ice Score written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country’s wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back—with the help of a “specialist”: Parker. Will Parker break his rule against working with amateurs and help them because his woman would be disappointed if he doesn’t? Or because three hired morons have threatened to kill him and his woman if he does? They thought they were buying an advantage, but what they get is a predated death certificate.

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 : 0226772829
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Green Eagle Score written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Green Eagle Score, Parker cuts his vacation with Claire short with a new job: stealing the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York. With help from Marty Fusco, fresh out of the pen, and a smart aleck finance clerk named Devers, Parker tries to shorten the odds on the risky job. But the ice is thinner than Parker likes to think—and a wrench always gets thrown in the works.

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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780850317305
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Ice Score written by Richard Stark and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back--with the help of a "specialist"--Parker, that is. He has the best references in town. Will Parker break his rule against working with amateurs and help them because his woman would be disappointed if he doesn't? Or because three hired morons have threatened to kill him and his woman if he does? They thought they were buying an advantage, but what they get is a predated death certificate. "Crime fiction stripped down--as it was meant to be. . . . Oh, how the pages keep turning."--"Philadelphia"" Inquirer" "Old master that he is, Stark does all of them one better."--"Los Angeles"" Times"

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 : 0226772985
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Butcher's Moon written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long as most of the master heister’s adventures, and absolutely jammed with the action, violence, and nerve-jangling tension readers have come to expect. Back in the corrupt town where he lost his money, and nearly his life, in Slayground, Parker assembles a stunning cast of characters from throughout his career for one gigantic, blowout job: starting—and finishing—a gang war. It feels like the Parker novel to end all Parker novels, and for nearly twenty-five years that’s what it was. After its publication in 1974, Donald Westlake said, “Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone.” Featuring a new introduction by Westlake’s close friend and writing partner, Lawrence Block, this classic Parker adventure deserves a place of honor on any crime fan’s bookshelf. More than thirty-five years later, Butcher’s Moon still packs a punch: keep your calendar clear when you pick it up, because once you open it you won’t want to do anything but read until the last shot is fired.

Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
ISBN 13 : 9049983715
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hot Spot written by Charles Williams and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Madox, a dull town, a beautiful woman, and an easy bank heist spell doom In a town so small that Main Street is only three blocks long, there isn’t a lot to do—other than work, ogle women, and think about fast ways to get rich. After a year of aimless wandering, Madox has landed here, nearly broke and with no prospects but a dead-end job selling cars to yokels. Until one afternoon a fire at the burger joint draws the attention of everyone in town—including the men who are supposed to be guarding the bank. It’s almost too good to be true, but there it is—$15,000 lying around, watched by no one. Now all Madox needs is a little nerve and a second distraction. And while one woman will give him the nerve, another will make him ready to kill.

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780380699032
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Ice Score written by Richard Stark and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1985-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226772950
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sour Lemon Score written by Richard Stark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a job leaves too small a take for George Uhl, who begins to pick off his fellow hoisters, one by one. The first mistake? That he doesn’t begin things by putting a bullet in Parker. That means he won’t get the chance to make a second. One of the darkest novels in the series, this caper proves the adage that no one crosses Parker and lives “Whatever Stark writes, I read. He’s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.”—Elmore Leonard “The non-hero: the ruthless, unrepentant, single-minded operator in a humorless and amoral world. . . . No one depicts this scene with greater clarity than Richard Stark.”—The New York Times