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1) The outfit
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English
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They wanted Parker dead-and a late-night visit from a hitman proved they meant business. Now Parker plans to get even-dead even. Armed with a new face and his usual iron will, Parker is declaring a coast-to-coast war.
In The Outfit, Parker goes toe-to-toe with the mob, hellbent on taking him down. The notorious lone wolf has some extra tricks up his sleeve, and the entire underworld will learn an unforgettable lesson: whatever Parker does, he does...
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The coldblooded criminal known as Parker tries, and fails, to stay under the radar in rural New England: "Nobody does the noir thriller better than Stark." -San 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...
3) The getaway
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1994
Language
English
Description
When master criminal Doc McCoy is forced to do time in a Mexican jail, his wife Carol visits a powerful crime boss in hopes of enlisting his assistance in an escape. Once free, Doc and Carol take off with the loot from a botched robbery and find themselves on the run from the law, an angry partner, and a hit squad.
4) The drop
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English
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The Drop follows a former criminal whose efforts to build a new life with his girlfriend and pit bull rescue puppy fall apart when he becomes mixed up in a robbery gone wrong.
5) Dirty money
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English
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Master criminal Parker and his cohorts return to an abandoned country church where they had been forced to abandon the spoils of a bank heist, an endeavor during which he drives an old choir van and works to outmaneuver foes on both sides of the law.
6) Breakout
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A master thief must build a team to escape a correctional center in this fast-paced, hard-boiled crime novel by the author of Firebreak.
With Parker locked up and about to be unmasked, Breakout follows his Houdini-like escape from prison with a team of convicts. But when a new heist and new dangers-con artists, snitches, busybodies, eccentrics, and cops-loom among the dark alleys and old stone buildings of the big city to which they've fled, Parker...
7) Firebreak
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English
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Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.
But cash isn't everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and...
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Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hard-boiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose, Stark is a master of crime writing. His books are as influential as any in the genre. Parker goes under the knife in The Man with the Getaway Face, changing his face to escape the mob and a contract on his life. Along the way...
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Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. One woman, Fidelma McBride, becomes so enamored that she begs him for a child. All that world is shattered when Vlad is arrested, and his identity as a war criminal is revealed. Fidelma, disgraced, flees to England and seeks work among the other migrants displaced by wars and persecution. But it is not until she confronts...
10) The big O
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Karen finds her life as a receptionist and armed robber turned upside down when her ex, Rossi, is paroled and her current boyfriend, Ray, asks for Karen's help in his latest job, which requires them to kidnap Karen's best friend.
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1996
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English
Description
Dortmunder loses his lucky ring to Max Fairbanks after he is caught trying to rob the billionaire who tells the police the cheap jewelry is his. In retaliation, Dortmunder assembles an entire team of crooks and goes on a burglary spree of Fairbanks's many residences and gathers up a lot of loot in his quest to recover the ring.
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
A dangerous outlaw arrives in the small town of Holliswood, where everything seems perfect, with the intention of documenting the chaos and destruction he hopes to cause, and Daniel X attempts to stop the powerful villain with a hand-picked team.
15) The lock artist
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Michael, who has not spoken since a tragic occurrence ten years before, realizes he has a talent for picking locks, but his skills lead him into a life of crime that he will have to escape in order to confront the secret to his silence and find love.
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Twenty-year-old Billy Free, falsely accused of the murder of a deputy, becomes the object of an extensive manhunt when he kills two members of the posse sent to arrest him and goes on the run across the Texas frontier, leaving more and more trouble in his wake.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
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English
Description
After Neal Maven finishes his tour in Iraq and returns home to Boston, he accepts a job from Brad Royce, a charismatic veteran who asks Maven to utilize his special skills to intercept drug deals for the money--and then destroy the drugs--but when the city's kingpins put a bounty on Maven's head, he begins to question how Royce receives his information.
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"Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy. Under the name Melanie Denison, she has spent the last fifteen years in small-town West Virginia as part of the Witness Protection...
19) Flashfire
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Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.
But cash isn't everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and...
20) R. Holmes & Co
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"Raffles Holmes possesses all of the detection skills of his father, Sherlock--with none of the responsibility Raffles Holmes comes from impressive stock, with both larceny and detection in his blood in equal measure. He's the son of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, and the grandson of gentleman criminal A. J. Raffles. No wonder he's so conflicted between the desire to solve crimes and the urge to make sure the rich get their deserved comeuppance....
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