Butcher's Moon

✍ Scribed by Stark, Richard; Block, Lawrence

• Book ID: 107208010
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 166 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Review

"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 Moon is 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

(Terry Teachout About Last Night )

Product Description

The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is 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: starting—and finishing—a 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 Moon still 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.