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Shifting from my usual Slog-role as sportswriter and Illinois/Chicago correspondent, I'd like to second Paul Constant's recommendation yesterday in Slog of Richard Stark's Parker novels (not to be ...

"Firebreak" (Mysterious Press, 297 pages, $23.95) is the latest in the stunningly successful series of books written by Westlake under the pen name Richard Stark about a thief named Parker ...

Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter Adapted and illustrated by Darwyn Cooke IDW, 144 pp. In the Indy‘s look at the best books from 2008, I named the University of Chicago Press’ reissues of ...

Books Better Read Than Dead: Crime Novels of the 1960s A two-volume collection packs in thrillers from Patricia Highsmith, Chester Himes, Richard Stark and others.

Stark contrasts "Parker" marks the first time onscreen that Donald Westlake's iconic anti-hero thief Richard Parker is actually called by the name used in the author's 24 pseudonymous Richard ...