Richard Stark
Birth date: July 12, 1933
Died: December 31, 2008
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“Now to find Uhl.” A job goes, yes, sour on Parker and he sets out to put things right, the Parker way. He has a pretty rum time of it, all told. Yes, Claire can wire him funds from afar but this time round Parker gets drugged, shot at, and his leads get killed right in front of him, all of which ra...
“This was not a joke.” Parker walks away from this escapade $25,000 richer but phew-ee what a way to make a living. This time round he’s commissioned to plan, rather than execute, the theft of a collosal stash of diamonds from a Manhattan safe house, a job that’s already been discussed with a previo...
“This isn’t the way I had it planned but what the hell.” The tenth Parker and “Richard Stark” (maestro Donald Westlake) is somehow still finding extraordinary targets for our hard-as-nails robber to hit. After island casinos, sports stadiums and whole towns this time Parker has his sights on the pay...
“You only get one scream”. Parker takes one look at the amateurs planning to do over a coin convention and quite rightly walks away along with the only other vaguely professional guy in the room. He should have kept walking and he should have kept a closer eye on that other guy. What distracts him? ...
"Talking to you is like having a chat with one of the statues on Easter Island." Parker, an island with a casino on it, a Nazi war criminal and Alan Grofield firing off witticisms as well as bullets. Flashman still reigns as my favourite series of novels, but my God every one of these would have to ...
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