Ask the Parrot
The coldblooded criminal known as Parker tries, and fails, to stay under the radar in rural New England: "Nobody does the noir thriller better than Stark." —San Diego Union-Tribune
In Ask the Parrot, the followup to Nobody Runs Forever, ruthless thief Parker is back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he is forced to work with a small-town recluse nursing a grudge against the racetrack that fired him. Even in hiding, Parker manages to get up to no good. It'll be a deadly day at the races . . .
"Richard Stark's Parker crime novels are the ultimate page-turners." —Jonathan Ames, The Boston Globe
"Parker is a blunt instrument of a human being." —John Hodgman, Parade
"Often funny, laced with Stark's brutally morbid humor . . . fast-moving, tense scenes that drip with potential violence before, inevitably, exploding into actual violence." —Christopher Bahn, AV Club
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Richard Stark
Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008), a prolific author of crime fiction. In 1993, the Mystery Writers of America bestowed the society’s highest honor on Westlake, naming him a Grand Master.
Parker
Parker consists of twenty-four books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
