Richard Stark

A rare take on a whodunit, The Dame features a cast of colorful characters and a suspenseful - and memorable - climax....

Grofield is visited by G-men who offer him an alternative to jail, and he finds himself forced into a deadly situation involving international criminals and a political conspiracy....

Following a wounded Grofield and his damsel on a scenic, action-packed road trip from Mexico City to Acapulco, The Damsel is full of wit, adrenaline, and political intrigue....

Baron is clever - perhaps too clever. He sits on the heavily protected island of Cockaigne, a mini-Las Vegas forty miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, raking in as much as $250,000 some nights....

The robbery was a piece of cake. The getaway was clean. And seven men were safely holed up in different places while Parker held all the cash....

Master criminal Parker takes another turn for the worse as he tries to recover loot from a heist gone terribly wrong....

Knocking over a highly lucrative religious revival show, Parker reminds us that not all criminals don ski masks - some prefer to hide behind the wings of fallen angels....

Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably....

You probably haven't noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. They're heisters....

The good guys in a new African nation were missing a treasury full of diamonds. The nation's corrupt leader had stashed the rocks somewhere in New York City....

Racing through the backwoods of Massachusetts, Parker runs right into the barrel of a gun pointed from the wrong side of the law....

The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters....

Backflash finds Parker checking out the scene on a Hudson River gambling boat....

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....

Here’s Parker—planning to steal the 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....

The heist was a piece of cake. It didn't bother Parker that the priceless statue was in a Russian diplomat's house… because he had no scruples about ripping off a Red....

The 16th 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 listeners have come to expect....

Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal....

When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of seasoned professionals can’t guarantee against human error in a high-risk scam....

Between Parker’s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably....