Richard Stark: The Outfit (USA 2008) From the Publisher: They're thieves. Heisters, to be precise. They're pros, and Parker is far and away the best of them. If you're planning a job, you want him in. Tough, smart, hardworking, and relentlessly focused on his trade, he is the heister's heister, the robber's robber, the heavy's heavy. You don't want to cross him, and you don't want to get in his way, because he'll stop at nothing to get what he's after. Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose-style -- and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing urgency -- Stark is a master of crime writing, his books as influential as any in the genre. The University of Chicago Press has embarked on a project to return the early volumes of this series to print for a new generation of readers to discover -- and become addicted to. In The Outfit, Parker goes toe-to-toe with the mob -- hitting them with heist after heist after heist -- and the entire underworld learns an unforgettable lesson: whatever Parker does, he does deadly. Richard Stark: The Outfit. A Parker Novel. University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226771014 (September, 2008), 224 p., $14.00.
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Richard Stark: The Outfit (USA 1998) From the Publisher: Richard Stark: The Outfit. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446674672 (December, 1998), 224 p., $12.95.
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