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In a Midwestern city, Parker calmly tosses a firebomb through a plate-glass window, while some newfound partners in crime take down a nearby bank. Making their getaway in the confusion, the bank robbers tell him two things: that his heist was only seed money for a much gaudier one, and that Parker has to loan them his share of the take. They should have given him his cut, or killed him. Because now Parker is rampaging through the American South, taking on a new identity as he goes, planning his own assault on his former partners' next target, a spectacular jewellery heist in Palm Beach. But Parker didn't count on one unfortunate detail. A very bad and very stupid man knows his true identity, and wants him dead. Another brilliant noir crime novel in the legendary Parker series.
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'The writing is as stripped down as a drag racer and the action is as brutal and powerful ... Parker is some mean machine and you will love him' The Scotsman. (Scotsman)
'Invariably well-written, exciting and hugely entertaining. Stark's crisp, convincing dialogue is as good as Elmore Leonard's' The Times. (The Times)
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'Invariably well-written, exciting and hugely entertaining. Stark's crisp, convincing dialogue is as good as Elmore Leonard's' The Times. (The Times)
"Park is the genre's most captivating anti-hero" Daily Mirror
When professional thief, Parker, finds himself working with an associate called Melander and his gang on a bank heist in a Midwestern city in Nebraska, his job is throwing a Molotov cocktail into a gas station. The resulting explosion sends the cops and fire trucks to one side of town, while the gang plunders the bank on the other.
But Parker wasn't consulted about Melander's follow-up plan, to use all the money from the bank job, including Parker's cut, to pay for a new heist, the robbery of a Palm Beach jewellers. Now Parker feels cheated and aggrieved, and he's tailing the gang down South, with a plan for getting his own back... and the entire swag of gems besides.
"The nonpareil, the hardboilest of the hard-boiled, one of the best loved names in all of noir" Guardian
"Invariably well-written, exciting and hugely entertaining. Stark's crisp, convincing dialogue is as good as Elmore Leonard's" The Times
When professional thief, Parker, finds himself working with an associate called Melander and his gang on a bank heist in a Midwestern city in Nebraska, his job is throwing a Molotov cocktail into a gas station. The resulting explosion sends the cops and fire trucks to one side of town, while the gang plunders the bank on the other.
But Parker wasn't consulted about Melander's follow-up plan, to use all the money from the bank job, including Parker's cut, to pay for a new heist, the robbery of a Palm Beach jewellers. Now Parker feels cheated and aggrieved, and he's tailing the gang down South, with a plan for getting his own back... and the entire swag of gems besides.
"The nonpareil, the hardboilest of the hard-boiled, one of the best loved names in all of noir" Guardian
"Invariably well-written, exciting and hugely entertaining. Stark's crisp, convincing dialogue is as good as Elmore Leonard's" The Times
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- PublisherRobert Hale Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0709069588
- ISBN 13 9780709069584
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages312
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