The long-awaited return of the legendary thief created by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake) in โa riveting tale of betrayal and escapeโ (Chicago Tribune).
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Foreword by Lawrence Block
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After the bloodbath ofย Butcherโs Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, โRichard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone.โ And for nearly twenty-five years, he stayed away, while readers waited.
But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parkerโs as bad as they come. According to Westlake, one day in 1997, โsuddenly, he came back from the dead, with a chalky prison pallorโโand the resulting novel,ย Comeback, showed that neither Stark nor Parker had lost a single step. Knocking over a highly lucrative religious revival show, Parker reminds us that not all criminals don ski masksโsome prefer to hide behind the wings of fallen angels.
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โParker has not lost his touchโor his nerve . . . In a world of warped values, an honest crook like Parker is a true treasure.โ โMarilyn Stasio,ย The New York Times Book Review
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โComebackย is brisker, faster, and funnier than the earlier novels . . . Elmore Leonard wouldnโt write what he does if Stark hadnโt been there before. And Quentin Tarantino wouldnโt write what he does without Leonard . . . Old master that he is, Stark does all of them one better.โ โLos Angeles Times
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โEnergy and imagination light up virtually every page, as does some of the best hard-boiled prose ever to grace the noir genre.โ โPublishers Weekly