Richard Stark

We are born, and we die. In between, during our allotted brief time on this planet, we strive to make sense of our world, seeking answers to universal questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning and purpose of life? As we ponder the answers, we yearn for love, for friendship, and to be happy.WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER is a collection of nine beautifully articulated vignettes in which the author shares personal experiences from his own life's journey. In this collection, the author has created loving and enduring tributes to the dearest people and the most significant events of his life; tributes to which we can also relate, that touch the heart and speak to the soul.

We are born, and we die. In between, during our allotted brief time on this planet, we strive to make sense of our world, seeking answers to universal questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning and purpose of life? As we ponder the answers, we yearn for love, for friendship, and to be happy. WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER is a collection of nine beautifully articulated vignettes in which the author shares personal experiences from his own life's journey. In this collection, the author has created loving and enduring tributes to the dearest people and the most significant events of his life; tributes to which we can also relate, that touch the heart and speak to the soul.

Tappajan jäljet on kiveä kovempi tarina saalistajasta, Parkerista, joka on joutunut karulla tavalla rikoskumppaneidensa ja rakkaansa pettämäksi. Mutta Parker ei ole sitä tyyppiä, joka antaisi periksi, saati anteeksi. Hän haluaa saada rahansa takaisin ja samalla kostaa. Täysin piittaamatta vastustajiensa ylivoimasta. Richard Stark on yksi Donald E. Westlaken salanimistä, jota hän käytti kirjoittaessaan Parker-kirjoja. Sarjan aloittava Tappajan jäljet on rikoskirjallisuuden pitelemätön klassikko, ja häikäilemätön Parker yksi ikonisimmista hahmoista mitä alalla on nähty.Richard Stark on kuuluisan ja tuotteliaan Donald E. Westlaken (1933-2008) tunnetuin peitenimi. Vuonna 1962 hän loi mestaririkollinen Parkerin ja aloitti lähes 30-osaisen kirjasarjan, josta muodostui merkittävä osa rikosfiktion kaanonia. Useita Westlaken kirjoja on filmatisoitu. Myös Tappajan jäljillä -teoksesta on tehty kaksi versiota, Tappajan jäljet (Point Blank, ohjaus John Boorman, pääosassa Lee Marvin, 1967) ja Tilinteko (Payback, ohjaus Brian Helgeland, pääosassa Mel Gibson, 1999). Monet Westlaken kirjoista ovat humoristisia, kuten Dortmunder-sarja, mutta Parkereissa tarjoillaan kylmää kyytiä. Useasti palkittu Westlake sai Mystery Writers of America -yhdistyksen korkeimman tunnustuspalkinnon, Grand Masterin arvonimen vuonna 1993.

Parker, whose getaway car crashes after a heist, manages to elude capturewith his loot by breaking into an amusement park that is closed for the winter.But his presence does not go unnoticed - a pair of cops observed the joband its aftermath. But rather than pursue their suspect... they decide to gointo business for themselves, with the help of some "business associates." Fromthen on it's a game of cat and mouse, one played out through closed rides of theabandoned carnival... a game that slowly starts to favor themouse.Includes the Eisner award-winning short story "The 7th,"previously only available in the Martini Edition! Darwyn Cooke,Eisner-Award winning creator of DC: The New Frontier, continues adapting RichardStark's genre-defining Parker novels with his signature pulp flair in this finalinstallment. A hard-nosed thief, Parker is Richard Stark's most famous creation,and Stark, in turn, is the most famous pen name of Mystery Writers of AmericaGrand Master Donald E. Westlake. If Cooke's previous Parker adaptations are anyindicaton, we'd best to buckle up.SEE LESS

Parker, the Eisner Award-winning series of graphicnovels by Darywn Cooke based on Richard Stark's classic character.THE SCORE is a high-octane trip acrossAmerica, as Parker assembles a dozen of the best caper men he can find to knockover his most audacious target yet: an entire town. They scheme, they prepare,and they execute with military precision unaware that the whole thing is aboutto blow up in their faces. Long considered a high watermark in the Parkerseries, this new graphic adaptation brings the original to violent,double-crossing life.

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels Westlake wrote-Breakout, Nobody Runs Forever, Ask the Parrot, and Dirty Money-the University of Chicago Press pulls the ultimate score: for the first time ever, the entire Parker series will be available from a single publisher. Parker's got a new fence and a new plan to get the loot back from a botched job in Dirty Money, but a bounty hunter, the FBI, and the local cops are on his tail. Only his brains, his cool, and the help of his lone longtime dame, Claire, can keep him one step ahead of the cars and the guns. Featuring new forewords by Chris Holm, Duane Swierczynski, and Laura Lippman-celebrated crime writers, all-these masterworks of noir are the capstone to an extraordinary literary run that will leave you craving more. Written over the course of fifty years, the Parker novels are pure artistry, adrenaline, and logic both brutal and brilliant. Join Parker on his jobs and read them all again or for the first time. But don't talk to the law.

In Ask the Parrot, Parker's back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he meets a small-town recluse who Forced to work with a small-town recluse nursing a grudge against the racetrack that fired him. Even on the run, Parker manages to get up to no good. It'll be a deadly day at the races.

Nobody Runs Forever opens a three-part saga with a job at a poker game that sours into a necktie party. When Parker goes in on a messy scam-stealing an armored car-with someone he barely knows, as usual the amateurs get in the way of the job. From a nervous ex-con and his well-intentioned sister to a bank manager's two-timing wife and a beautiful, relentless cop, too many people have their hands too close to Parker's pie. Even when he sees the job turning bad, he can't let go of the score-and there just might be nowhere left to run...

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels Westlake wrote-Breakout, Nobody Runs Forever, Ask the Parrot, and Dirty Money-the University of Chicago Press pulls the ultimate score: for the first time ever, the entire Parker series will be available from a single publisher. With Parker locked up and about to be unmasked, Breakout follows his Houdini-like escape from prison with a team of convicts. But when a new heist and new dangers-con artists, snitches, busybodies, eccentrics, and cops-loom among the dark alleys and old stone buildings of the big city to which they've fled, Parker soon learns that not all prisons have bars. Featuring new forewords by Chris Holm, Duane Swierczynski, and Laura Lippman-celebrated crime writers, all-these masterworks of noir are the capstone to an extraordinary literary run that will leave you craving more. Written over the course of fifty years, the Parker novels are pure artistry, adrenaline, and logic both brutal and brilliant. Join Parker on his jobs and read them all again or for the first time. Just don't talk to the law.

THE HUNTED BECOMES THE HUNTER Meet Parker, the ultimate professional. Parker is a master thief, and a man with a heart of steel. He believes in the oldest law of all - a life for a life. His one-time partner, Mal, tried to pull a fast one, making off with Parker's share of the takings after a successful heist, as well as his Parker's wife, Lynn. Big mistake. They thought they had left him for dead, but Parker survived their bullets and now he's out for revenge and prepared to do whatever it takes. The prey has become the hunter, and now Parker is stalking them, leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. Haunting and brutal, Point Blank was made into the cult classic movie starring Lee Marvin, and remains one of the most distinctive crime thrillers ever written.

After evening the score with those who betrayed him, Parker is riding high, living in swank hotels and enjoying the finer things in life again. Until he's fingered by a squealer who rats him out to the Outfit for the price they put on his head... and they find out too late that if you push Parker, it better be all the way into the grave.

In 1962, Donald E. Westlake, writing under the pseudonym Richard Stark,created what would become one of the most important and enduring crime fictionseries ever produced - Parker. Westlake wrote more than 20Parker novels, many considered classics of the genre, and a number ofwhich have transitioned to the big screen. Most notable of these is PointBlank, directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin, released in 1967.Westlake received many accolades during his distinguished career, includingbeing named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writer's of America, that prestigiousorganization's highest honor.Darwyn Cooke has adapted four Parker books as graphic novels so far.The first three, The Hunter, The Outfit, and The Score haveall won Eisner and Harvey Awards. He will be providing all-new colorillustrations for The Hunter, the first in a series of hardcover prosenovels released in chronological order and featuring Cooke's art.The Hunter, the first book in the Parker series, is the storyof a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayedby the woman he loves and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makeshis way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind - tocoldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him!

Payback has a new name: Flashfire is now a major film - 'Parker' - starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez. Parker is a thief with a unique code of ethics: Don't steal from people who can't afford it and don't hurt people who don't deserve it. When he is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead, Parker is set on revenge. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist, and put right what they took from him.

The Hunter is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like ashotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed byhis partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thoughtburning in his mind - to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what wastaken from him!For fans of gritty in-your-face crime-fiction graphic novels, there is nocomparison.

Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital--the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. But cash isn't everything, and now Parker's after a fortune in jewels. In Flashfire, Parker's in West Palm Beach, competing with a crew that has an unhealthy love of explosions. When things go sour, Parker finds himself shot and trapped--and forced to rely on a civilian to survive.

Fresh from his Eisner Award-winning efforts on The Hunter and TheOutfit, Darwyn Cooke now sets his steely sights on The Score, theclassic Richard Stark Parker novel from 1964. Parker becomes embroiled in a plot with a dozen partners in crime to pulloff what might be the ultimate heist - robbing an entire town. Everythingwas going fine for a while, and then things got bad. Considered one of the bestin the Parker series, The Score is the perfect vehicle for DarwynCooke to pull out all the stops and let loose with a book that has all theimpact of a brutal kick to the solar plexus!

Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker universe, starring Alan Grofield, an occasional colleague of Parker. While he shares events and characters with several Parker novels, Grofield is less calculating and more hot-blooded than Parker; think fewer guns, more dames.Not that there isn't violence and adventure aplenty. . The Dame finds Grofield in Puerto Rico protecting a rich, demanding woman in her isolated jungle villa, and reluctantly assuming the role of detective. A rare Westlake take on a whodunit, The Dame features a cast of colorful characters and a suspenseful--and memorable--climax.With a new foreword by Sarah Weinman that situates the Grofield series within Westlake's work as a whole, this novel is an exciting addition to any crime fiction fan's library.