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  1. Parker: Book 5

    The Score

    by Richard Stark

    It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in one entire city in one night. But there was one thief good enough to try-Parker. All he needed was the right men, the right plan, and the right kind of help from Lady Luck.The men and the plan... (learn more about this book)

  2. Parker: Book 1

    The Hunter

    by Richard Stark

    You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything . That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on... (learn more about this book)

  3. Parker: Book 2

    The Man With the Getaway Face

    by Richard Stark

    Master thief Parker comes to a plastic surgeon in Nebraska with a face that the Outfit--the New York syndicate--wants to decorate with a bullet. But nothing can keep Parker away from his old life of crime--and the major heist of an armored car somewhere in New Jersey.

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  4. Parker: Book 3

    The Outfit

    by Richard Stark

    Count on this.... The castle was in Buffalo and the king was in the castle. The car was in the pine woods of Georgia and Parker was on the move: slowly plotting his attack on the head of the powerful criminal outfit that had put a contract on his life. Armed with a new face and the old iron... (learn more about this book)

  5. Parker: Book 4

    The Mourner

    by Richard Stark

    The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn't interested in its sentimental value. The thief cared more about retrieving a certain gun that came with it, the one he had used in a previous crime that could incriminate him. By the time Parker comes face to face with the 16-inch-tall alabaster... (learn more about this book)

  6. Lemons Never Lie

    by Richard Stark

    When he’s not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately – which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers’ plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York.  ... (learn more about this book)

  7. Parker: Book 23

    Ask the Parrot

    by Richard Stark

    Racing through the backwoods of Massachusetts and on the verge of being taken down for one of the biggest and most disastrous bank heists the state has ever seen, Parker runs right into the barrel of a gun pointed from the "wrong" side of the law. A quiet but angry recluse--with only a ... (learn more about this book)

  8. Parker: Book 6

    The Jugger

    by Richard Stark

    Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a retired safecracker-also known in the business as a jugger-knew. He knew Parker's alias, his whereabouts, his plans...and because he knew too much, he knew to keep his mouth shut. Or die. But Joe... (learn more about this book)

  9. Parker: Book 19

    Flashfire

    by Richard Stark

    Richard Stark's professional criminal, Parker, is so hard-boiled hecould make an egg cry. Blunt and matter-of-fact (the less charitable might saycold and calculating), he has perfected the art of theft. Unfortunately,perfection can be a relative term, a concept made vulnerable by the... (learn more about this book)

  10. Parker: Book 17

    Comeback

    by Richard Stark

    The half-million dollar robbery of a Christian crusade engineered by Parker, Liss, and Mackey comes off without a hitch. Then the double cross begins! "Comeback", by hard-boiled crime writer Richard Stark, has been named a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year.

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