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Description for Slayground
Paperback. Parker robs a rock concert, but the heist goes sour, and he finds himself - and his woman, Claire - menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hippies. Slayground turns the hunter into prey, as Parker gets trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 285 x 17. Weight in Grams: 242.
By the time Richard Stark sat down to write Deadly Edge in 1971, he'd been chronicling the adventures of his antihero, Parker, for nearly a decade. But it turns out he was just warming up: the next three Parker novels would see Stark crank everything up a notch - tightening the writing, heightening the violence, and, most of all, hardening the deadly heister at the books' heart. Deadly Edge kicks things off by bidding a brutal adieu to the 1960s: Parker robs a rock concert, but the heist goes sour, and he finds himself ... Read more
By the time Richard Stark sat down to write Deadly Edge in 1971, he'd been chronicling the adventures of his antihero, Parker, for nearly a decade. But it turns out he was just warming up: the next three Parker novels would see Stark crank everything up a notch - tightening the writing, heightening the violence, and, most of all, hardening the deadly heister at the books' heart. Deadly Edge kicks things off by bidding a brutal adieu to the 1960s: Parker robs a rock concert, but the heist goes sour, and he finds himself ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226770925
SKU
V9780226770925
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Richard Stark
Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008), 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.
Reviews for Slayground
Parker... lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark's noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells.... In a complex world he makes things simple. - William Grimes, New York Times Richard Stark's Parker novels... are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time. - John Banville, Bookforum The ... Read more