Butcher's Moon

Reprint

Richard Stark , Block, Lawrence 저자(글)

University of Chicago Press · 2011년 04월 15일

책 소개

Richard Starkwas one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake (19332008), a prolific author of noir crime fiction. In 1993 the Mystery Writers of America bestowed the society's highest honor on Westlake, naming him a Grand Master.
Stark's antihero Parker attempts to retrieve money he had to leave in an amusement park, but the money is gone. He enlists Alan Grofield to assist, but when Grofield is taken hostage, Parker assembles a private army to get him back and rob the mob blind at the same time.
The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher's Moonis more than twice as long 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 where he lost his money, and nearly his life, in Slayground, Parker assembles a stunning cast of characters from throughout his career for one gigantic, blowout job: startingand finishinga gang war. It feels like the Parker novel to end all Parker novels, and for nearly twenty-five years that's what it was. After its publication in 1974, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone." Featuring a new introduction by Westlake's close friend and writing partner, Lawrence Block, this classic Parker adventures deserve a place of honor on any crime fan's bookshelf. More than thirty-five years later, Butcher's Moonstill packs a punch: keep your calendar clear when you pick it up, because once you open it you won't want to do anything but read until the last shot is fired.
"The best of Donald Westlake''s pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher''s Moonis the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own."--Terry Teachout, About Last Night

작가정보

저자(글) Richard Stark

Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008), a prolific author of crime fiction. In 1993, the Mystery Writers of America bestowed the society's highest honor on Westlake, naming him a Grand Master.

저자(글) Block, Lawrence

기본정보

ISBN	9780226770956 ( 0226770958 )
발행(출시)일자	2011년 04월 15일
쪽수	320쪽
크기	137 * 202 * 23 mm / 367 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어