E-raamat: Nobody Runs Forever: A Parker Novel

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels Westlake wrote—Breakout, Nobody Runs Forever, Ask the Parrot, and Dirty Money—the University of Chicago Press pulls the ultimate score: for the first time ever, the entire Parker series will be available from a single publisher.

Nobody Runs Forever opens a three-part saga with a job at a poker game that sours into a necktie party. When Parker goes in on a messy scam—stealing an armored car—with someone he barely knows, as usual the amateurs get in the way of the job.

Featuring new forewords by Chris Holm, Duane Swierczynski, and Laura Lippman—celebrated crime writers, all—these masterworks of noir are the capstone to an extraordinary literary run that will leave you craving more. Written over the course of fifty years, the Parker novels are pure artistry, adrenaline, and logic both brutal and brilliant. Join Parker on his jobs and read them all again or for the first time. But don’t talk to the law.

This is the second in our F17 batch of the final four Parker novels, and initiates the final story-line of the Parker series. The sequel, ASK THE PARROT,continues the saga culminating in DIRTY MONEY. The opening of this novel is particularly exciting: a poker game at which someone is wearing a wire, spotted by Parker, ends in a necktie party. With that job soured, Parker decides to go in on a messy scam stealing an armored car with someone he hardly knows. As usual, the amateurs let their emotions get in the way of the work, and the book ends on a cliffhanger. In his new foreword, Duane Swierczynski writes about how he discovered the Parker series, and how much he admires Westlake. Swierczynski writes for Marvel Comics, has written award-winning mysteries, including the Charlie Hardie series, and had two new novels last year.