By Richard Stark
After the massacre of Butcher's Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker experience, Donald Westlake stated, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a lifetime of his personal by way of easily disappearing. He used to be gone." And for almost twenty-five years, he stayed away, whereas readers waited.
But not anything undesirable is actually long past endlessly, and Parker’s as undesirable as they arrive. in accordance with Westlake, someday in 1997, "suddenly, he got here again from the useless, with a chalky legal pallor"--and the ensuing novel, Comeback, confirmed that neither Stark nor Parker had misplaced a unmarried step. Knocking over a hugely profitable non secular revival convey, Parker reminds us that no longer all criminals don ski masks--some like to cover in the back of the wings of fallen angels.
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