This novel is a bare-knuckle revenge thriller with a despicable protagonist who enacts violence on people slightly more despicable than him. Parker has just escaped from prison, where he’d been picked up as a vagrant. He wasn’t actually a vagrant but was in disguise in order to lay low after a bad job (he’s in the organized heist business). His partner and his wife betrayed him, and she shot him and left him for dead. Now back in town, he’s trying to figure out who […]
The Hunter
The Hunter by Richard Stark