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Slayground

A Parker Novel

With a new Foreword by Charles Ardai

The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters, in Slayground. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can’t afford a single miscalculation. He’s low on bullets and making it out alive is a long shot—but, as anyone who’s crossed his path knows, no one is better at playing higher stakes with shorter odds.


200 pages | 5 1/4 x 8 | © 2010

Fiction

Reviews

“A dimestore shiv of a book about what happens when corrupt cops tip off the mob about a car accident in which an incompetent wheelman flips a getaway car next to an amusement park called Fun Island. (Hint: Master thief/antihero extraordinaire Parker survives; a lot of other people die.”

Seth Mnookin | The Millions

“Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.”

Stephen King | Entertainment Weekly

“Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark’s noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world [he] makes things simple.”

William Grimes | New York Times

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