The Blackbird : An Alan Grofield Novel (Paperback)

from DaveWilde

The Blackbird is the third of four Alan Grofield novels by Donald Westlake's alter ego, Richard Stark. There are four Grofield novels in all, The Damsel, the Dame, The Blackbird, and Lemons Never Lie. The Blackbird is the weakest of the four. Grofield was a minor character in a couple of Parker n...

from Stahl-Ricco

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” This starts off with the same heist that "Slayground" begins - Grofield, Parker, and Laufman's hold up of an armored car! However this one is from Grofield's point of view, as "Slayground" was from Parker's! In "Slayground", Par...

from JohnWCuluris

Alan Grofield, who supports his life as theatre actor with scores made as a professional thief, is captured during the same getaway that opens the Parker novel Slayground. "Thankfully" Grofield is offered a way out by a federal agency due to acquaintanceships established in his previous adventure...

from wjohnston

The Blackbird's opening chapter is almost the same as the first chapter of Slayground from the Parker series. While Slayground follows Parker, Blackbird follows Grofield, who is caught and then offered his freedom in exchange with helping an unnamed agency of the US government. So Grofield is off...

from DaveWilde

The Blackbird is the third of four Alan Grofield novels by Donald Westlake's alter ego, Richard Stark. There are four Grofield novels in all, The Damsel, the Dame, The Blackbird, and Lemons Never Lie. The Vlackbird is the weakest of the four. Grofield was a minor character in a couple of Parker n...