With the latest adaptation of one of Donald Westlake's Parker novels set to open tomorrow, I was in the mood to slip back into the world of heists gone wrong.
Butcher's Moon isn't the novel the movie is based on--that would be Flashfire, one of the later Parker novels--but it was obviously intended to be the last Parker novel when it was published in 1974, with lots of characters from previous novels turning up to give the heister a proper sendoff.
Happily, Westlake returned to the character 22 years later and produced eight more Parker novels, including the aforementioned Flashfire.
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