Breakout - Hardcover

Stark, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089296779X ISBN 13: 9780892967797

Publisher: Mysterious Press, 2002

Synopsis

Stuck in jail without bail while awaiting trial, Parker builds a network among his fellow cons to assist him in getting out of trouble, but when he becomes involved in a heist set up by one of his co-conspirators, Parker and his fellow escapees suddenly find themselves on the run for their lives. 20,0000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

Tired of do-gooder heroes saving the day? Meet Parker--just Parker to you, bub--a one-man wrecking crew, cunning, fearless, and more than just a little cold-blooded. Writing again under hard-boiled alter-ego Richard Stark, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake returns to the violent world of his legendary criminal creation with Breakout.

This time around Parker has picked certain members of his crew wrong and the job goes south right into the county lockup. Alone and isolated, the antihero finds himself without much wiggle room. But experienced Stark readers know, wiggling is what the slippery Parker does best. In Breakout, he wiggles himself out of jail and right into an even more dangerous situation involving an armory, a tunnel, and a jewelry wholesaler.

While there are rough spots here and there, Breakout is simply another fun-to-read Parker novel, taking readers again to the flip side where the bad guys win and the good guys are never as good as they should be. Call it a great escape because, with this Parker novel in particular, that's just what it is. --Jeremy Pugh

About the Author:

Richard Stark, who is also Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake, lives in upstate New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 089296779X
• ISBN 13: 9780892967797
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288