Richard Stark

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1962
  • Latest Book:
    February 2018
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Full Series List in Order

An Alan Grofield Novel

The Blackbird (Apr-2012)
The Dame (Apr-2012)
The Damsel (Apr-2012)

A Parker Novel

1 - The Hunter (1962)
2 - The Man With the Getaway Face (1963)
3 - The Outfit (1963)
4 - The Mourner (1963)
5 - The Score // Killtown (1964)
6 - The Jugger (1965)
7 - The Seventh (1966)
8 - The Handle (1966)
9 - The Rare Coin Score (1967)
10 - The Green Eagle Score (1967)
11 - The Black Ice Score (1968)
12 - The Sour Lemon Score (1969)
13 - Deadly Edge (1971)
14 - Slayground (1971)
15 - Plunder Squad (1972)
16 - Butcher's Moon (1974)
17 - Comeback (Oct-1997)
18 - Backflash (Jul-1998)
19 - Flashfire (Nov-2000)
20 - Firebreak (Nov-2001)
21 - Breakout (Nov-2002)
22 - Nobody Runs Forever (Nov-2004)
23 - Ask the Parrot (Dec-2006)
24 - Dirty Money (Apr-2008)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • The Hunter

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 1

    She shot him just above the belt and left him for dead. Then they torched the house, with Parker in it, and took the money he had helped them steal. It all went down just the way they'd planned, except for one thing: Parker didn't die. In The Hunter,...

  • The Man With the Getaway Face

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 2

    In New York there was a contract on his life. In Nebraska there was an unscrupulous plastic surgeon guarded by a punch-drunk fighter. And somewhere in New Jersey there was an armored car stuffed with money. In the middle of it all was Parker. Parker ...

  • The Mourner

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 4

    The Mourner is a story of convergence -- of cultures and of guys with guns. Hot on the trail of a statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb, Parker enters a world of eccentric art collectors, greedy foreign officials, and shady KGB agents. H...

  • The Outfit

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 3

    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...

  • The Score // Killtown

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 5

    Knock over a city? A whole goddam city? Parker knew how and he thought he knew why. But there was no figuring Edgars. The idea had been his, the plan had been his and Parker had moulded them into something better. But there was no figuring Edga...

  • The Jugger

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 6

    It was a mess. If Sheer talked, Parker's cover was blown. But Sheer had talked and Sheer had died. And Younger, a fat crooked cop, had listened and was left dreaming on a cool half-a-million dollars that didn't exist, and a list full of name...

  • The Handle

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 8

    In The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. With double-crosses and double-dealings from the word go, Parker knows the line between success and failur...

  • The Seventh

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 7

    The robbery was a piece of cake. The getaway was clean. The only thing left to do is split the cash -- then it all goes wrong. In The Seventh, the heist of a college football game turns sour and the take is stolen from right under Parker’s nose. Wi...

  • The Split



  • The Green Eagle Score

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 10

    Parker knew the score was dangerous from the moment he first heard of it. A cowboy caper. Still, he listened. It was Parker's way of life to buck the odds, but when the odds grew too long a cool thief might pass--unless he saw a way they could be sho...

  • The Rare Coin Score

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 9

    When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them: never bring a dame along -- especially not one you like -- and never, ever, work with amateurs. Nevertheless, with the help of a creepy coin collecto...

  • The Black Ice Score

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 11

    A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back with the help of a "specialist" -- Par...

  • The Sour Lemon Score

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 12

    Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a job leaves too small a take for George Uhl, who b...

  • Deadly Edge

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 13

    It had taken four men to crash the rock concert and a few minutes to split the receipts and hit the crossroads. Parker headed northeast with a bulging suitcase and an itching for the broad who was waiting for him. That should have been an end. He fou...

  • Slayground

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 14

    The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters, in Slayground. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can’t afford a ...

  • Plunder Squad

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 15

    “Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder, and dove off his chair to the left.” When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of seasoned professionals can’t guarantee ...

  • Killtown

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • Butcher's Moon

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    A Parker Novel - 16

    The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long as most of the master heister’s adventures, and absolutely jammed with the action, violence, and nerve-jangling tension readers have come to expect. Back in the corrupt town wh...

  • Point Blank

    Parker steals. Parker kills. It’s a living… His partners had crossed him, his wife had emptied a .38 at his belly, and they’d left him in a burning house. Parker was tougher than they’d thought, but some business in the pen had kept him ...



  • Comeback

    A Parker Novel - 17

    The long-awaited return of the legendary thief created by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake) in “a riveting tale of betrayal and escape” (Chicago Tribune).  Foreword by Lawrence Block   After the bloodbath of Butcher’s Moon, the...

  • Backflash

    A Parker Novel - 18

    Parker's got a couple of rules that have helped keep him alive throughout his long career. One of those is never to work on a boat. But with a gambling boat cruising down the Hudson, stuffed to the gunwales with cash, Parker’s got a plan, a team, a...

  • Payback

    It's payback time! Now a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures starring Mel Gibson as master theif Parker, who appeared in a series of celebrated crime novels between 1962 and 1974 and returned after 23 years in "Comeback", which was named a N...

  • Flashfire

    A Parker Novel - 19

    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 a...

  • Firebreak

    A Parker Novel - 20

    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 a...

  • Breakout

    A Parker Novel - 21

    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 o...

  • Nobody Runs Forever

    A Parker Novel - 22

    Seven men came to a meeting in Cincinnati. One wore a wire, and another didn't hesitate to kill him-fast and hard. Now Parker has left that meeting and the murder behind, and gotten involved in a scheme that is stuffed with money and trouble. In t...

  • Lemons Never Lie

    Hard Case Crime - 22

    A dubious heist plan pits actor-thief Alan Grofield against a maniacal mastermind in this crime thriller by the acclaimed author of Point Blank.A struggling thespian and consummate thief, Alan Grofield isn’t too picky about where his money comes fr...

  • Hooky

  • Ask the Parrot

    A Parker Novel - 23

    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-TribuneIn Ask the Parrot, the followup to Nobody Runs Forever, ruthles...



  • Dirty Money

    A Parker Novel - 24

    Master criminal Parker takes another turn for the worse as he tries to recover loot from a heist gone terribly wrong. In Nobody Runs Forever, Parker and two cohorts stole the assets of a bank in transit, but the police heat was so great they could o...

  • The Blackbird

    An Alan Grofield Novel

    Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake...

  • The Dame

    An Alan Grofield Novel

    An action-packed whodunit set in San Juan by the crime fiction master and author of Point Blank. “A book by this guy is a cause for happiness” (Stephen King).Part-time actor-thief Alan Grofield has had his share of odd gigs, including a numb...

  • The Damsel

    An Alan Grofield Novel

    Escaping from the pages of the master crime writer’s acclaimed Parker novels, a fast-talking actor-thief has an adventure of his own across Mexico.   For years now, stage actor Alan Grofield has supported his craft with side gigs in the underw...

  • Parker

    There have been many film adaptations of Richard Stark’s novels over the years, but none of them actually featured a protagonist named Parker -- and none of them fully captured Parker’s chilling tenacity and laconic anticharm. Here for the first ...

  • Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Archives #18

    Cold Blooded War! In this standalone tale, the Doctor and Donna attempt to broker a peace plan between two very hierarchical and pompous alien races, the Draconians and Ice Warriors. But their best efforts are derailed by someone who stands to gain...

  • Richard Stark's Parker: The Outfit

    The Eisner-Award winning creator continues adapting Richard Stark's world of criminals, thugs, and grifters with his signature pulp flair in this second installment.

    A hard-nosed thief, Parker is Richard Stark's most famous creation, and S...

  • Richard Stark's Parker: The Score

    A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find to knock over his most audacious target yet: an entire town. They scheme, they prepare, and they execute with military precision, unaware that the wh...

  • Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground

    The award-winning graphic novel series adapting one of crime-fiction's most famous and hard-boiled characters continues in this beautifully illustrated and stylized masterpiece.

    Parker, whose getaway car crashes after a heist, manages to elude...

Award-Winning Books by Richard Stark

Slayground
2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award -- Adaptation


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Stark has published 38 books.

Richard Stark does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground, was published in February 2018.

The first book by Richard Stark, The Hunter, was published in January 1962.

Yes. Richard Stark has 2 series.
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