The mourner
Richard Stark
The fourth Parker novel has the main character coming up against the KGB while on the trail of a small statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb.
Read Time: ~2.7 hr
The Handle
by Richard Stark (2009)
About this book
"Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast." --Publisher.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreThe Handle Lead Character
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