Richard Stark

About the Author

Richard Stark has been hailed as one of the inventors-and one of the true masters-of noir crime fiction. Stark’s most recent Parker novels, Comeback and Backflash, were each selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His first novel, The Hunter, became the classic 1967 movie Point Blank. Thirty years later, The Hunter was adapted again by Hollywood, in the hit Mel Gibson movie Payback. Richard Stark is also, at times, the mystery Grand Master Donald E. Westlake. To learn more about the author, you can visit http://www.donaldwestlake.com.