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MYSTERY
She shot him just above the belt and left him for dead. Then they torched the house, with Parker in it, and took the money he had helped them steal. It all went down just the way they'd planned, except for one thing: Parker didn't die.
In The Hunter, the first volume in the Parker series, our ruthless antihero roars into New York City, seeking revenge on the woman who betrayed him and on the man who took his money, stealing and scamming his way to redemption. The volume that kick-started Parker's forty-plus-year career of larceny—and inspired the motion picture Point Blank (1967), starring Lee Marvin—The Hunter is back, ready to thrill a new generation of noir fans.
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"Whatever Stark writes, I read. He's a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude." Elmore Leonard
"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
"Parker is a true treasure. . . . The master...
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Fülszöveg
MYSTERY
She shot him just above the belt and left him for dead. Then they torched the house, with Parker in it, and took the money he had helped them steal. It all went down just the way they'd planned, except for one thing: Parker didn't die.
In The Hunter, the first volume in the Parker series, our ruthless antihero roars into New York City, seeking revenge on the woman who betrayed him and on the man who took his money, stealing and scamming his way to redemption. The volume that kick-started Parker's forty-plus-year career of larceny—and inspired the motion picture Point Blank (1967), starring Lee Marvin—The Hunter is back, ready to thrill a new generation of noir fans.
¦
"Whatever Stark writes, I read. He's a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude." Elmore Leonard
"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
"Parker is a true treasure. . . . The master thief is back, along with Richard Stark." Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
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Richard Stark is one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake, prolific author of noir crime fiction. In 1993 the Mystery Writers of America bestowed the society's highest honor on Westlake, naming him a Grand Master.
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