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Name: Ask The Parrot

Author: Richard Stark
Year: 2006
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Genres/categories:
Mystery, Crime, Thriller

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ISBNs:
9780892960682
089296068X

Sometimes mystery master Donald E. Westlake is the author of uproarious crime capers. Sometimes he has a mean streak-and its name is Parker. From his noir classic The Man with the Getaway Face to his recent novel Nobody Runs Forever, whenever Westlake writes as Stark, he lets Parker run loose-a ruthless criminal in a world of vulnerable "straights."

On a sunny October afternoon a man is running up a hill. He's not dressed for running. Below him are barking police dogs and waiting up ahead is a stranger-with a rifle, a life full of regrets, and a parrot at home who will mutely witness just how much trouble the runner, Parker, can bring into an ordinary life.

The rabbit hunter is Tom Lindahl, a small-town lonely heart nursing a big-time grudge against the racetrack that fired him. He knows from the moment he sees Parker that he's met a professional thief-and a man with murder in his blood. Rescuing Parker from the chase hounds, Lindahl invites the fugitive into his secluded home. He plans to rip off his former employer and exact a deadly measure of revenge-if he can get Parker to help.

But Tom doesn't know Parker and that the desperate criminal will do anything to survive-no matter who has to die...

This book is part of the "Parker" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Dirty Money"
First published in 2008
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"Nobody Runs Forever"
First published in 2004
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"Breakout"
First published in 2002
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"Firebreak"
First published in 2001
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"Flashfire"
First published in 2000
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"Comeback"
First published in 1997
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"Backflash"
First published in 1990
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"Butcher's Moon"
First published in 1974
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"Plunder Squad"
First published in 1972
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"Slayground"
First published in 1971
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"The Score"
First published in 1963
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"The Mourner"
First published in 1963
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"The Outfit"
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"The Hunter"
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"The Handle"
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