Butcher's Moon

This is a notable book in the Parker series because for a long time it looked like it’d be the last one that Richard Stark (a/k/a Donald E. Westlake) ever wrote since it was over twenty years before he finally did another one. This one is also a personal milestone since it’s the last Parker novel th......more

First published in 1974, this is the sixteenth book in Richard Stark's acclaimed series featuring Parker, the amoral antihero criminal mastermind. While the book can be read as a stand-alone, it is really the capstone of the series to that point and the last Parker novel that would appear until Come......more

i never read any of Stark thrillers. do not blame me for this. it it better later than never and this one came to me like a bullet train riding full speed. this guy do not throw words ahead if they are not pure action. there is no time for almost any description, you hardly even know where it is hap......more

I wonder if I would still feel the same sense of closure if I didn’t already know it would be over twenty years before Parker would “comeback.” (Of course this is not counting his appearance as a character in a novel within the Dortmunder novel: Jimmy the Kid; a book I don’t consider a part of the P......more

After book number 16 of this series Mr Stark took a 25 year break from creating Parker's crime infested world. I must say- he went out with a BIG ol' bang!! Everyone in Butcher's Moon is a target and as the bodies pile up it seems Parker and his ilk might have finally met their match.... Or have the......more