The Score

I'm slowly working my way through the Parker novels by Richard Stark (aka Donald E Westlake). There are 24 of them. So far I've read the last nine of them and am now working my way through the beginning books in the series. This one is book 5 and not as strong a story as some others. It's about Parker teaming up with a large crew to basically hit a whole small town in a single night. FYI: My introduction to Parker was Comeback which was excellent. The 16th book is Butcher's Moon and was published in 1974. Westlake didn't get around to penning another Parker novel until Comeback in 1997. The first Parker novel is The Hunter (1963), AKA Point Blank (turned into a movie with Lee Marvin), AKA Payback (turned into a movie with Mel Gibson).