Customer Review: Richard Stark's Parker hit you like a shot gun blast decades ago. Darwyn Cooke's illustrated version finished you off. Your dead. Cooke's take on the classic two fisted tale of Parker is marvelous! Rarely has the written word been translated so perfectly in this genre. Parker's thirst for... more info
Customer Review: this book was excellent. one can tell it is one of the writers earlier novels as the writing is a little rough around the edges but this only helps add to the gritty crime drama and the plight of the protagonist... antagonist... well the main character! i was blown away with the harsh realistic... more info
Customer Review: a great book, the heist pulled off in this one is intricate and exciting. but then someone steals all the loot! the story details parker and his crew of seven thieves trying to track down the robber that robbed the robbers! keeps you reading with great story telling and has some crazy scenes from a... more info
Customer Review: parker on a quest to get revenge on the head of the outfit for having sent a hit man after him and hopes to rob the guy in the process! this plot line alone made this an excellent book but what makes this one stand out from the series so well is that it also details multiple other exciting robberies... more info
Customer Review: parker finds out that his go-between, joe sheer, is dead. he comes to his town for the funeral and ends up mixed up with a hick cop and an unknown person who both are looking for joe's mysterious hidden fortune that parker doubts even exists. many twists and turns from parker being knocked out in a... more info
Customer Review: ... It even has an excellent Robert E. McGinnis cover painting. The story inside the book, of course, is just as excellent. Just what I've come to expect from Donald E. Westlake, regardless of whatever pen name he chooses to write under. Parker is a lean, mean, hardboiled machine as always, taking... more info
Customer Review: totally original, great story! heisters trying to steal a rare statue and then getting heisted themselves! amazing plot, well drawn characters (handy mckay is awesome!). in the end it gets all tied up in a nice parker style bow. it reminded me of oceans eleven (the newer one) because it's super... more info
Customer Review: a unique parker entry in that he is working for the outfit! requested to rob a baron who owns a casino on an island in the gulf of mexico... sounds kind of james bond... but becomes original and more parker about half way through. anyway the plan gets laid out, grofield (the score) and salsa (the... more info
Customer Review: parker and a large group of thieves take an entire town! grofield's first appearance! twists, turns, great characters. very exciting. makes most heist movies and books seem simple by comparison!
Customer Review: excellent, parkers expertise in setting up an armored car job while trying to protect his new identity after plastic surgery was necessary because of the events in the hunter is excellent. this is the first time you get to meet some of parkers' "friends" as he sets up a heist. mile a minute story,... more info
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