The coldblooded criminal known as Parker tries, and fails, to stay under the radar in rural New England: โNobody does the noir thriller better than Stark.โ โSan 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 racetrack that fired him. Even in hiding, Parker manages to get up to no good. Itโll be a deadly day at the races . . .
โRichard Starkโs Parker crime novels are the ultimate page-turners.โ โJonathan Ames, The Boston Globe
โParker is a blunt instrument of a human being.โ โJohn Hodgman, Parade
โOften funny, laced with Starkโs brutally morbid humor . . . fast-moving, tense scenes that drip with potential violence before, inevitably, exploding into actual violence.โ โChristopher Bahn, AV Club