Parker thrillers
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The hunter: a Parker novel , Parker thrillers volume 1
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The man with the getaway face: a Parker novel , Parker thrillers volume 2
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The outfit: a Parker novel , Parker thrillers volume 3
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4) The Mourner
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The Mourner is a story of convergence-of cultures and of guys with guns. Hot on the trail of a statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb, Parker enters a world of eccentric art collectors, greedy foreign officials, and shady KGB agents. Hired by a shifty dame who has something he needs, Parker will find out just who intends to bury whom-and who he needs to kill to finish the job.
5) The score
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Parker thrillers volume 5
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The fifth Parker novel has the main character planning a score that involves a dozen professional crooks ready to take over a rich, remote North Dakota town.
6) The Jugger
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They say the past always catches up to you-but if he can help it, Parker won't let his. In The Jugger, an old contact who could blow Parker's cover tells Parker he's in trouble - then turns up dead. With Parker's skeletons on the verge of escaping from their closet, he must put the pieces together-at any cost-before it's too late.
7) The Seventh
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Parker thrillers volume 7
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The robbery was a piece of cake. The getaway was clean. The only thing left to do is split the cash-then it all goes wrong. In The Seventh, the heist of a college football game turns sour and the take is stolen from right under Parker's nose. With the cops on his tail, Parker must figure out who crossed him-and how he can pay the culprit back.
8) The Handle
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Parker thrillers volume 8
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In The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. With double-crosses and double-dealings from the word go, Parker knows the line between success and failure on this score would be exactly the length of the barrel of a .38.
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Parker thrillers volume 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. Nevertheless, with the help of a creepy coin collector named Billy, and the lure of a classy widow, he agrees to set up a heist of a coin convention. But Billy's a rookie with no idea how to pull off a score, and the lady soon becomes a major distraction. The...
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Parker thrillers volume 10
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In The Green Eagle Score, Parker cuts his vacation with Claire short with a new job: stealing 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, Parker tries to shorten the odds on the risky job. But the ice is thinner than Parker likes to think-and a wrench always gets thrown in the works.
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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 diamonds back-with the help of a "specialist": Parker. Will Parker break his rule against working with amateurs and help them because his woman would be disappointed if he doesn't? Or because three hired morons have threatened to kill him and his woman...
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Parker thrillers volume 12
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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 job leaves too small a take for George Uhl, who begins to pick off his fellow heisters, one by one. The first mistake? That he doesn't begin things by putting a bullet in Parker. That means he won't get the chance to make a second. One of the darkest novels...
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Deadly edge , Parker thrillers volume 13
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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, in Slayground. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can't afford a single miscalculation. He's low on bullets and making it out alive is a long shot-but, as anyone who's crossed his path knows, no one is better at playing higher stakes with shorter odds.
15) Plunder Squad
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Parker thrillers volume 15
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"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 seasoned professionals can't guarantee against human error in a high-risk scam. Can an art dealer with issues unload a truck of paintings with Parker's aid? Or will the heist end up too much of a human interest story, as luck runs out before Parker...
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Butcher's moon , Parker thrillers volume 16
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17) Comeback
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Parker thrillers volume 17
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Parker agrees to take part in the nearly half-million dollar robbery of a Christian crusade, having been given inside help by a disgruntled worker in the Rev. William Archibald's camp, but things start to go wrong when one of the trio of robbers decides he wants to keep all the money for himself.
18) Backflash
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Parker thrillers volume 18
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Master thief Parker finds himself in desperate straits when things go wrong during a robbery aboard a gambling casino on the Hudson River.
19) Flashfire
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Parker thrillers volume 19
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"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 this 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...
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Parker thrillers volume 20
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Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.
But cash isn't everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and...
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Parker thrillers volume 21
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A master thief must build a team to escape a correctional center in this fast-paced, hard-boiled crime novel by the author of Firebreak.
With Parker locked up and about to be unmasked, Breakout follows his Houdini-like escape from prison with a team of convicts. But when a new heist and new dangers-con artists, snitches, busybodies, eccentrics, and cops-loom among the dark alleys and old stone buildings of the big city to which they've fled, Parker...
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Parker thrillers volume 22
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"Lots of bleak fun . . . This stellar series just gets better and better." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The saga begins with a poker game gone lethally awry. When Parker goes in on a messy scam-stealing an armored car-with someone he barely knows, as usual the amateurs get in the way of the job. From a nervous ex-con and his well-intentioned sister to a bank manager's two-timing wife and a beautiful, relentless cop, too many people have...
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Parker thrillers volume 23
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The coldblooded criminal known as Parker tries, and fails, to stay under the radar in rural New England: "Nobody does the noir thriller better than Stark." -San Diego Union-Tribune
In Ask the Parrot, the followup to Nobody Runs Forever, ruthless thief Parker is back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he is forced to work with a small-town recluse nursing a grudge against the...
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Parker thrillers volume 24
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A master thief wraps up some unfinished business in this fast-paced, hard-boiled crime novel by the author of Nobody Runs Forever.
Parker's got a new fence and a new plan to get the loot back from a botched job. But a bounty hunter, the FBI, and the local cops are on his tail. Only his brains, his cool, and the help of his lone longtime dame, Claire, can keep him one step ahead of the cars and the guns in this final Parker thriller.
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