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* EvilIsCool: Played with. Parker is undeniably a badass, but the "professionals" he works with often wind up dead and Parker himself can find himself stripped of a stake.
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* TheAlcatraz: Stoneveldt in ''Breakout'' has this reputation. Parker is told multiple times that no one has ever escaped from there.
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* TheAlcatraz: Stoneveldt in ''Breakout'' has this reputation. Parker is told multiple times that no one has ever escaped from there. Played with in the sense that it's not due to the overall defenses but rather that no one's there long enough to formulate a plan.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Several of Parker's targets.
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* FinaglesLaw: Especially in the later books, almost inevitably something no amount of planning could anticipate hits Parker from the side.
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** Got to the point where Alan Grofield got his own series of books, one of which crosses over with Parker's.
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** ''Butcher's Moon'' has a team of thieves Parker assembles strike multiple Outfit targets in one night before assaulting their headquarters.
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** ''Butcher's Moon'' features Parker [[spoiler: assembling an army and ruthlessly killing most of the criminal infrastructure of a small city.]]
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* LeftForDead: Parker is left for dead when he is betrayed by his wife and his partner after TheHeist in ''The Hunter''. He wakes up inside a burning house. Managing to escape, he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: ''The Hunter'' is about Parker going on after his wife and partner who double-crossed him and left him for dead.
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* PocketProtector: Parker survives his wife's attempt to kill in ''The Hunter'' because her first shot hits his belt buckle. This knocks him down and causes her remaining five wild shots to pass over the top of him.
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* ''Flashfire'' (2000)
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* ''Flashfire'' (2000)(2000, aka ''Parker'')
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* TheMafia: Called "The Outfit" in the books; Parker deals with them so effectively they begin ''referring work to him.''
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* BareFistedMonk: Parker is perfectly willing to use guns, knives, clubs and booby trapped amusement parks as weapons, but he prefers to work with his hands.
-->'''Stegman''': I don't see no gun on you. I don't see no weapon!
-->'''Parker''': ''([[KnuckleCracking cracks knuckles]])'' You see two of them. They're all I need.
-->'''Stegman''': I don't see no gun on you. I don't see no weapon!
-->'''Parker''': ''([[KnuckleCracking cracks knuckles]])'' You see two of them. They're all I need.
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* HonorAmongThieves: Parker has a rigid code of honour, in that A) he will absolutely not double-cross another professional criminal with whom he is working, unless B) if anyone tries to double-cross him, Parker will unhesitatingly undertake to exact a thorough and brutal revenge.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: While the books will occasionally hop out of Parker's head and into another character's, ''The Man With The Getaway Face'' [[spoiler: spends an entire quarter of the book with Stubbs, a minor annoyance introduced in the second section, and his quest to avenge his close friend.]]
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: While Fairly consistently, the books will occasionally hop out of Parker's head and into another character's, ''The Man With The Getaway Face'' [[spoiler: spends an entire quarter of spend the book with Stubbs, a minor annoyance introduced third of four sections being told from the perspective of somebody else in the second section, and his quest story before reverting back to avenge his close friend.]]Parker.
* EvilIsCool: Played with. Parker is undeniably a badass, but the "professionals" he works with often wind up dead and Parker himself can find himself stripped of a stake.
* KarmaHoudini: If Parker is just stealing something, he'll generally get away clean with no repercussions, although not without trouble. If Parker commits murder, it comes back to bite him.
* LooseLips: The undoing of more than one of Parker's carefully planned heists.
* LooseLips: The undoing of more than one of Parker's carefully planned heists.
** ''The Green Eagle Score'' features Parker [[spoiler: heisting a payroll from an Air Force base.]]
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* WhatAnIdiot: Westlake will generally take some time at some point in each book to illustrate what an amateur would do in a situation, and why it's a bad idea.
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* TheMafia: Called "The Outfit" in the books; Parker deals with them so effectively they begin ''referring work to him.''
* WhatAnIdiot: Westlake will generally take some time at some point in each book to illustrate what an amateur would do in a situation, and why it's a bad idea.
** This is taken to new heights in one of Westlake's Dortmunder books, which alternates between the crooks reading a Parker novel with a carefully executed kidnapping, and the thieves in "real life" screwing up the plan completely.
* WhatAnIdiot: Westlake will generally take some time at some point in each book to illustrate what an amateur would do in a situation, and why it's a bad idea.
** This is taken to new heights in one of Westlake's Dortmunder books, which alternates between the crooks reading a Parker novel with a carefully executed kidnapping, and the thieves in "real life" screwing up the plan completely.
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* {{Badass}}: Parker. How Badass? Well, he's been portrayed on film by LeeMarvin, MelGibson and JasonStatham...
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* {{Badass}}: Parker. How Badass? Well, he's been portrayed on film by LeeMarvin, MelGibson Creator/LeeMarvin, Creator/MelGibson and JasonStatham...Creator/JasonStatham...
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: While the books will occasionally hop out of Parker's head and into another character's, ''The Man With The Getaway Face'' [[spoiler: spends an entire quarter of the book with Stubbs, a minor annoyance introduced in the second section, and his quest to avenge his close friend.]]
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* SpoilerTitle: [[spoiler: ''The Seventh'' make it pretty clear what's going to happen when you discover it involves a seven-man job.]]
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* SpoilerTitle: [[spoiler: The title of ''The Seventh'' make makes it pretty clear what's going to happen when you discover it involves a seven-man job.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: Parker himself obviously always makes it out. The series is not shy about bumping off anybody else, though.
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* RedShirt: At least one per book.
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A ruthless career criminal, Parker has almost no traditional redeeming qualities, aside from efficiency and professionalism. Parker is cold, methodical, and perfectly willing to commit murder to get what he wants. His first name is never mentioned in the novels, and there are many details about him which remain unknown. The novels are being adapted into graphic novels by Darwyn Cooke for IDW Publishing.
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A ruthless career criminal, Parker has almost no traditional redeeming qualities, aside from efficiency and professionalism. Parker is cold, methodical, and perfectly willing to commit murder to get what he wants. His first name is never mentioned in the novels, and there are many details about him which remain unknown. The Starting in the 2010s, the novels are being adapted into graphic novels comics by Darwyn Cooke for IDW Publishing.
* AdaptationDistillation: The Parker graphic novels. ''The Outfit'' opens with the heist from ''The Man With The Getaway Face'' before swinging into the plot of the book it's titled after, and ''Slayground'' features a short story adapted from the finale of ''The Seventh.''
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Parker is a thief and can kill without feeling remotely bad about it, but generally prefers a minimum of violence in his heists and won't kill somebody unless they're trying to kill him directly or indirectly.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Parker is a thief can and can will kill without feeling remotely bad about it, with dispassion, but generally prefers a minimum of violence in his heists and won't kill somebody unless they're trying to kill him directly or indirectly.indirectly. He also won't take more than his share from a heist unless he's been double-crossed or otherwise screwed over.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: Parker is arguably more dangerous without a weapon than with one.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Westlake will generally take some time at some point in each book to illustrate what an amateur would do in a situation, and why it's a bad idea.
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A ruthless career criminal, Parker has almost no traditional redeeming qualities, aside from efficiency and professionalism. Parker is cold, methodical, and perfectly willing to commit murder to get what he wants. His first name is never mentioned in the novels, and there are many details about him which remain unknown.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Parker is a thief and can kill without feeling remotely bad about it, but generally prefers a minimum of violence in his heists and won't kill somebody unless they're trying to kill him directly or indirectly.
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* RefugeInAudacity: ''The Score'' features Parker and a team [[spoiler: robbing an ''entire town'' in one night.]]
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* NoHonorAmongThieves: Many of Parker's heists go astray when one of his partners decides to betray the crew and take the loot for themselves.
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* PlethoraOfMistakes: Parker's carefully planned heists seldom go according to plan; usually due to either the greed of his partners or the interference of other criminals.
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* TheAlcatraz: Stoneveldt in ''Breakout'' has this reputation. Parker is told multiple times that no one has ever escaped from there.
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* {{Badass}}: Parker. How Badass? Well, he's been portrayed on film by LeeMarvin, MelGibson and JasonStatham...
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* TheHeist: Most of the novels revolve around some kind of heist.
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Parker is a fictional character created by Donald E. Westlake. He is the main protagonist of 24 of the 28 novels Westlake wrote under the pseudonym Richard Stark.
A ruthless career criminal, Parker has almost no traditional redeeming qualities, aside from efficiency and professionalism. Parker is cold, methodical, and perfectly willing to commit murder to get what he wants. His first name is never mentioned in the novels, and there are many details about him which remain unknown.
The novels in the Parker series are:
* ''The Hunter'' (1962, aka ''Point Blank'', ''Payback'')
* ''The Man With the Getaway Face'' (1963, aka ''The Steel Hit'')
* ''The Outfit'' (1963)
* ''The Mourner'' (1963)
* ''The Score'' (1964, aka ''Killtown'')
* ''The Jugger'' (1965)
* ''The Seventh'' (1966, aka ''The Split'')
* ''The Handle'' (1966, aka ''Run Lethal'')
* ''The Rare Coin Score'' (1967)
* ''The Green Eagle Score'' (1967)
* ''The Black Ice Score'' (1968)
* ''The Sour Lemon Score'' (1969)
* ''Deadly Edge'' (1971)
* ''Slayground'' (1971 — First chapter shared with ''The Blackbird'', a novel in Westlake's Alan Grofield series)
* ''Plunder Squad'' (1972)
* ''Butcher's Moon'' (1974)
* ''Comeback'' (1997)
* ''Backflash'' (1998)
* ''Flashfire'' (2000)
* ''Firebreak'' (2001)
* ''Breakout'' (2002)
* ''Nobody Runs Forever'' (2004)
* ''Ask the Parrot'' (2006)
* ''Dirty Money'' (2008)
!!The ''Parker'' novels contain examples of:
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: In ''Comeback'', Parker unloads Liss's shotgun while Liss is sleeping. This saves his life when Liss double-crosses him.
* VillainProtagonist
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A ruthless career criminal, Parker has almost no traditional redeeming qualities, aside from efficiency and professionalism. Parker is cold, methodical, and perfectly willing to commit murder to get what he wants. His first name is never mentioned in the novels, and there are many details about him which remain unknown.
The novels in the Parker series are:
* ''The Hunter'' (1962, aka ''Point Blank'', ''Payback'')
* ''The Man With the Getaway Face'' (1963, aka ''The Steel Hit'')
* ''The Outfit'' (1963)
* ''The Mourner'' (1963)
* ''The Score'' (1964, aka ''Killtown'')
* ''The Jugger'' (1965)
* ''The Seventh'' (1966, aka ''The Split'')
* ''The Handle'' (1966, aka ''Run Lethal'')
* ''The Rare Coin Score'' (1967)
* ''The Green Eagle Score'' (1967)
* ''The Black Ice Score'' (1968)
* ''The Sour Lemon Score'' (1969)
* ''Deadly Edge'' (1971)
* ''Slayground'' (1971 — First chapter shared with ''The Blackbird'', a novel in Westlake's Alan Grofield series)
* ''Plunder Squad'' (1972)
* ''Butcher's Moon'' (1974)
* ''Comeback'' (1997)
* ''Backflash'' (1998)
* ''Flashfire'' (2000)
* ''Firebreak'' (2001)
* ''Breakout'' (2002)
* ''Nobody Runs Forever'' (2004)
* ''Ask the Parrot'' (2006)
* ''Dirty Money'' (2008)
!!The ''Parker'' novels contain examples of:
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: In ''Comeback'', Parker unloads Liss's shotgun while Liss is sleeping. This saves his life when Liss double-crosses him.
* VillainProtagonist
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