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Product Identifiers

PublisherIdea & Design Works, LLC

ISBN-101613776594

ISBN-139781613776599

eBay Product ID (ePID)201633863

Product Key Features

Book TitleRichard Stark's Parker: the Hunter

Number of Pages222 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

TopicThrillers / Crime, Crime, Mystery & Detective / General, Noir

IllustratorYes, Cooke, Darwyn

GenreFiction

AuthorRichard Stark

Book SeriesParker Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight29.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Parker's a very bad man, but it's hard to take your eyes off him." - Washington Post "A tremendous feat of compression and interpretation. When Westlake wrote as Richard Stark, he wrote starkly, using minimal description and the tersest dialogue. Cooke, perhaps best known for his work on DC: The New Frontier and another remarkable adaptation, his reinvention of Will Eisner's The Spirit , somehow pares down the story of The Hunter even more radically than the Stark novel." - Entertainment Weekly

Dewey Decimal813.54

SynopsisThe Hunter , the first book in the Parker series, is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loves and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind - to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him! In 1962, Donald E. Westlake, writing under the pseudonym Richard Stark, created what would become one of the most important and enduring crime fiction series ever produced - Parker. Westlake wrote more than 20 Parker novels, many considered classics of the genre, and a number of which have transitioned to the big screen. Most notable of these is Point Blank , directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin, released in 1967. Westlake received many accolades during his distinguished career, including being named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writer's of America, that prestigious organization's highest honor. Darwyn Cooke has adapted four Parker books as graphic novels so far. The first three, The Hunter , The Outfit , and The Score have all won Eisner and Harvey Awards. He will be providing all-new color illustrations for The Hunter , the first in a series of hardcover prose novels released in chronological order and featuring Cooke's art., The Hunter , the first book in the Parker series, is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loves and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind -- to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him In 1962, Donald E. Westlake, writing under the pseudonym Richard Stark, created what would become one of the most important and enduring crime fiction series ever produced -- Parker. Westlake wrote more than 20 Parker novels, many considered classics of the genre, and a number of which have transitioned to the big screen. Most notable of these is Point Blank , directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin, released in 1967. Westlake received many accolades during his distinguished career, including being named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writer's of America, that prestigious organization's highest honor. Darwyn Cooke has adapted four Parker books as graphic novels so far. The first three, The Hunter , The Outfit , and The Score have all won Eisner and Harvey Awards. He will be providing all-new color illustrations for The Hunter , the first in a series of hardcover prose novels released in chronological order and featuring Cooke's art.

LC Classification NumberPS3573.E9