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The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3)
3.74 avg. rating
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Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark, offers the third Alan Grofield novel of suspense. Grofield is a part-time actor, but the rest of the time he's a thief. But in this advernture, no one is …
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· 1320 Ratings
The Wheel of Fortune turned and Parker figured his number had finally come up. An armored car heist had gone sour. His partners were dead or dying. He had escaped with the loot, but holing up in a des…
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Plunder Squad (Parker, #15)
4.03 avg. rating
· 838 Ratings
Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder and dove off his chair to the left.

When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of…
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Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long most of the master heister’s adventures, and absolutely jammed with the action, violence, and nerve-jangling tension readers have …

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The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11)
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· 1067 Ratings
A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the di…
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The Sour Lemon Score (Parker, #12)
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· 1386 Ratings
Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a j…
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Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)
4.09 avg. rating
· 939 Ratings

Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes south. Soon Parker finds himself—and his woman, Claire—menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hippies…

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Flashfire (Parker, #19)
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· 1169 Ratings
Melander likes to do things flashy. When Parker finds himself working with Melander on a bank heist in a mid-sized midwestern city, his job is throwing a Molotov cocktail into a gas station. The resul…
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The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10)
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· 1109 Ratings
Here’s Parker—planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with help from Marty Fusco, fresh out of the pen, and a smart aleck finance clerk named Devers. Holed up wi…
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Backflash (Parker, #18)
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· 1413 Ratings
Following on the heels of Comeback, a New York Times Notable Book, a new Parker adventure finds the master thief deep in troubled waters when his plan to hijack a riverboat casino goes awry. 20,000 fi…
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Comeback (Parker, #17)
4.05 avg. rating
· 1110 Ratings
A robbery of a Christian Crusade executed in the heat of the night comes off without a hitch, but it seems that the evangelist, the cops, the criminals, and the church's security officer are all after…
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The Handle (Parker, #8)
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· 1227 Ratings
The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was just a floating crap game with class. To the Big Boys, it was competition they couldn’t stomach. They w…
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The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)
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When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them: never bring a dame along—especially not one you like—and never, ever, work with amateurs. Neverthel…
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Dirty Money (Parker, #24)
3.86 avg. rating
· 894 Ratings
Master criminal Parker takes another turn for the worse as he tries to recover loot from a heist gone terribly wrong. In Nobody Runs Forever, Parker and two cohorts stole the assets of a bank in trans…
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Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)
3.83 avg. rating
· 1074 Ratings
Sometimes mystery master Donald E. Westlake is the author of uproarious crime capers. Sometimes he has a mean streak-and its name is Parker. From his noir classic The Man with the Getaway Face to his …
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The Jugger (Parker, #6)
3.98 avg. rating
· 1605 Ratings
Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a retired safecracker — also known in the business as a jugger — knew. He knew Parker’s alias, his whereab…
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Firebreak (Parker, #20)
3.88 avg. rating
· 887 Ratings
Parker put down the body and answered the phone. And from that moment on he had two jobs to do. One was to rob a remote Montana lodge where a dot-com billionaire hid stolen art treasures in his baseme…
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The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
Master thief Parker comes to a plastic surgeon in Nebraska with a face that the Outfit--the New York syndicate--wants to decorate with a bullet. But nothing can keep Parker away from his old life of c…
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Breakout (Parker, #21)
4.05 avg. rating
· 1031 Ratings
Stuck in jail without bail while awaiting trial, Parker builds a network among his fellow cons to assist him in getting out of trouble, but when he becomes involved in a heist set up by one of his co-…
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Nobody Runs Forever (Parker, #22)
3.94 avg. rating
· 882 Ratings
Seven men came to a meeting in Cincinnati. One wore a wire, and another didn't hesitate to kill him-fast and hard. Now Parker has left that meeting and the murder behind, and gotten involved in a sche…
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The Mourner (Parker, #4)
3.91 avg. rating
· 2013 Ratings
The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief cared more about retrieving a certain gun that came with it, the one he had used in a previous crime tha…
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