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Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter (Paperback)
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- #1: The Hunter Lib/E (Parker Novels #1) (Compact Disc): $54.95
- #2: The Man with the Getaway Face Lib/E (Parker Novels #2) (Compact Disc): $54.95
- #3: The Outfit Lib/E (Parker Novels #3) (Compact Disc): $54.95
- #4: The Mourner Lib/E (Parker Novels #4) (Compact Disc): $54.95
- #5: The Score Lib/E (Parker Novels #5) (Compact Disc): $54.95
- #6: The Jugger Lib/E (Parker Novels #6) (Compact Disc): $49.95
- #7: The Seventh Lib/E (Parker Novels #7) (Compact Disc): $54.95
- #8: The Handle Lib/E (Parker Novels #8) (Compact Disc): $49.95
- #9: The Rare Coin Score Lib/E (Parker Novels #9) (Compact Disc): $49.95
- #10: The Green Eagle Score Lib/E (Parker Novels #10) (Compact Disc): $59.95
- #11: The Black Ice Score Lib/E (Parker Novels #11) (Compact Disc): $59.95
- #12: The Sour Lemon Score Lib/E (Parker Novels #12) (Compact Disc): $49.95
- #13: Deadly Edge Lib/E: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels #13) (Compact Disc): $59.95
- #14: Slayground Lib/E (Parker Novels #14) (Compact Disc): $59.95
- #15: Plunder Squad Lib/E: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels #15) (Compact Disc): $59.95
- #16: Butcher's Moon Lib/E (Parker Novels #16) (Compact Disc): $74.95
- #17: Comeback Lib/E (Parker Novels #17) (Compact Disc): $59.95
- #18: Backflash Lib/E (Parker Novels #18) (Compact Disc): $59.95
- #19: Flashfire Lib/E: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels #19) (Compact Disc): $59.95
- #20: Firebreak Lib/E (Parker Novels #20) (Compact Disc): $59.95
- #24: Dirty Money Lib/E (Parker Novels #24) (Compact Disc): $25.00
Description
The groundbreaking Parker books are adapted for the first time as a series of graphic novels by legendary artist Darwyn Cooke introducing readers to the dangerous anti-hero's cold and calculated world of criminals, thugs, and grifters.
Darwyn Cooke’s beautifully stylized artwork perfectly compliments the hard-hitting action as originally written by legendary crime author Richard Stark. Parker is arguably one of the hardest hard-boiled characters in all of crime fiction and the original novels feature stories and prose that are as uncompromising as he is. This graphic novel adaptation perfectly matches the style and tone of Stark’s noir world.
The Hunter is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind — to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him!
Winner of the 2010 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Work
About the Author
Richard Stark is the most famous pseudonym of world-renowned author Donald Westlake (1933-2008). In 1962 hecreated the master thief Parker and began a series of novels that have been recognized as seminal works of crime fiction. Several of Westlake’s books have been adapted by Hollywood and Westlake’s adaptation of The Grifters earned him an Academy Award nomination for best motion picture screenplay. Westlake has won numerous awards for his fiction and in 1993 the Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master, the highest honor bestowed by that prestigious society.
Darwyn Cooke (1962-2015) was a graphic designer and animator who turned his attention toward cartooning in the late nineties. Known primarily for his work on the DC line of superheroes, Cooke always had an affinity for crime fiction and has often cited the Parker books as a great source of creative inspiration. Cooke has won multiple Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster awards, as well as the National Cartoonist Society’s Best Series award. In 2008 Cooke was Emmy-nominated for the animated adaptation of his magnum opus, DC: The New Frontier.
Praise For…
"Parker's a very bad man, but it's hard to take your eyes off him." –Washington Post
"A tremendous feat of compression and interpretation. When Westlake wrote as Richard Stark, he wrote starkly, using minimal description and the tersest dialogue. Cooke, perhaps best known for his work on DC: The New Frontier and another remarkable adaptation, his reinvention of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, somehow pares down the story of The Hunter even more radically than the Stark novel." –Entertainment Weekly
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