Donald E. Westlake
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- Richard Stark
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Bad News: A Dortmunder Novel
Donald E. Westlake
“I’m a robber,” John Dortmunder says, “not a grave robber.” Yet he soon finds himself in a Long Island cemetery, in the very dead of night, with dirt up to his knees.
His old friend Andy Kelp is to blame—Andy Kelp and the Internet. For it was while ambling on the Net that Kelp met up with master manipulator Fitzroy Guilderpost and his nefarious companions, the flunked teacher Irwin Gabel and the Las Vegas showgirl Little Feather Redcorn.
What these three have in mind is the amazing takeover of an upstate New York casino, and what they also envision is…
Donald E. Westlake
Burke Devore is a paper company manager, a man who can tell you everything you ever wanted to know about bleaching processes and the edible wood pulp they put in ice cream. For twenty-five years Burke has provided for his family and played by the rules. Until now. Now Devore is slipping away: from his wife, his family, and from all norms of civilized behavior. Burke Devore wants his life back. And he will do anything to get it.
Donald E. Westlake has written a tale of dark, mesmerizing power about one quiet, ordinary victim of corporate downsizing—who reacts…
Payback: A Novel
Richard Stark
His partners had crossed him; his wife had emptied a .38 at his belly, and they’d left him in a burning house. Parker was tougher than they’d thought, but some business in the pen kept him busy for a while. Now he was out, and there was a matter of $45,000—his $45,000 and a matter of revenge that needed his immediate attention. Parker would have both, even if it meant going up against every man in the mob.
