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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 - 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. He's low on bullets - but, as anyone who's crossed his path knows, that definitely doesn't mean he's defenseless. Finally, in Plunder Squad, job after job disintegrates into failure and violence, and a rare act of mercy from earlier in the series comes back to bite Parker - hard. These books by Stark reveal a master craftsman working at the height of his powers, and they deserve a place on the bookshelf of every fan of crime fiction.
Genre: Mystery
Genre: Mystery
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Used availability for Richard Stark's Deadly Edge
Hardback Editions
May 1992 : UK Hardback
1971 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
September 2010 : USA Paperback
May 1992 : USA Paperback
November 1992 : UK Paperback
June 1990 : UK Paperback
January 1974 : UK Paperback
1974 : USA Mass Market Paperback

Title: DEADLY EDGE - A Parker Mystery
Author(s): Richard (pen name used by Donald E Westlake) Stark
ISBN: 0-425-02502-0 / 978-0-425-02502-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Berkley Medallion Books
Availability: Amazon CA
Audio Editions
August 2018 : MP3 CD
May 2013 : USA Audio CD
February 2013 : Canada Audio edition

Title: Deadly Edge: A Parker Novel, Book 13
Author(s): Richard Stark
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Availability: Amazon CA
Kindle Editions
September 2010 : USA, Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition