Butcher's Moon : A Parker Novel (Paperback)

from JohnWCuluris

I wonder if I would still feel the same sense of closure if I didn't already know it would be over twenty years before Parker would "comeback." (Of course this is not counting his appearance as a character in a novel within a Dortmunder novel: Jimmy the Kid; a book I don't consider a part of the ...

from Stahl-Ricco

“Call him and ask him,” the voice said, “what you should do if you owe some money to a guy named Parker.” Boom! And off we go! THE Parker book!!! Almost twice the length of the previous books! Parker, with Grofield, are back at Fun Island Amusement Park to retrieve the money they left behind from...

from scarequotes

And this is where Parker's story stops for 23 years. I think I'll take a break from the Parker novels for a few months and come back to Comeback after that. These books are never dull, but the four-book run that Westlake started with Deadly Edge is easily the high point of the series, the best it...

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How do you turn bad guys into good guys in fiction? By creating even worse guys. Donald E. Westlake used this device time after time in his books, especially when writing Parker novels under the name of Richard Stark. “Butcher's Moon” (1974) is a classic Parker novel, longer than most and with a ...

from JohnWCuluris

I wonder if I would still feel the same sense of closure if I didn't already know it would be over twenty years before Parker would "comeback." (Of course this is not counting his appearance as a character in a novel within a Dortmunder novel: Jimmy the Kid; a book I don't consider a part of the ...