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Master thief Parker has unfinished business to conclude: Two million dollars are up for grabs but collecting them means returning to the scene of a heist turned sour. Just a week ago, Parker and his gang made off with the contents of a country bank, stirring up a hornet's nest of law-enforcement. Trapped on foot and much too near the crime scene, Parker was forced to stash the loot in the choir loft of an abandoned country church.Regardless of the still-present roadblocks and wanted posters, Parker knows he needs to recover the spoils before his murderous ex-confederates do. Of course, the cops are looking for the money, too. As are some New York thugs who've sniffed out what Parker is up to. And there's a resourceful female bounty hunter after a cut too.Remorseless as ever, Parker will do whatever it takes to redeem his prize, no matter who gets hurt in the process - his new getaway van may have 'Holy Redeemer Choir' emblazoned on its doors, but Parker's no choirboy...
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Master thief Parker is back and events continue from the events in the last Parker outing, [b:Ask The Parrot 209198 Ask the Parrot Richard Stark http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172699196s/209198.jpg 3847]. From that story, Parker and the surviving accomplices had to leave two million in marked bills stashed in an abandoned church in Western Massachusetts. Now one of those accomplices has escaped from police custody and Parker wants to get that money before he does. But the town is crawling with cops and wanted posters are cropping up with Parker's likeness on them. Of course, that's not the only complications.This is my twelfth Parker novel and they're short, briskly paced tales with a body count. Richard Stark is the name Donald Westlake uses for his lean, mean Parker tales. This one is the latest one published and it's a good one.
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23 primary booksParker is a 23-book series with 23 primary works first released in 1962 with contributions by Richard Stark.