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As some of you frustrated readers know, I’ve never understood the appeal of Twitter, so while I do use it to inform people of new posts here and link the occasional interesting article, I don’t check the @worldofparker account regularly. But, fortunately, I did a couple of weeks ago, where I […] After being delayed for a year and a half, the second volume of Parker: The Martini Edition has finally been released from IDW Publishing. The Martini Edition – Last Call is a gorgeous, slipcased hardcover volume collecting books three and four (the final two, alas) of Darwyn Cooke’s brilliant Parker graphic novels. It […] Update: Variety describes the project as “”a series of movie and television projects adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s ‘Parker’ crime fiction series.” Original post (slightly edited) below. ————————— Some interesting news broke about a week ago concerning a new Parker movie project. Here is as much as we know: It will be directed and […] Well, I finally watched it. What took me so long? I’ll get to that. The Score is the fifth of Richard Stark’s Parker novels and universally thought of as one of the series’ very best. I bet some would say that The Score is the best. It’s probably in nearly everyone’s top five, […]  This post doesn’t show up well on mobile device. Click here to view the image on its own. Dan Kearney of Joe Gores’ DKA series had a crossover with Parker and vice versa in Gores’ Dead Skip and Richard Stark’s Plunder Squad. Donald Westlake’s own Dortmunder had a crossover with Parker (sort of) in Jimmy […]
Update: The drawing has been held and lucky reader Sean is the winner! I haven’t been posting or updating as much I’d like lately, so to keep you on your toes so you’ll keep checking in, here’s a giveaway. I’ve got a used DVD copy of the 2013 Jason Statham/Jennifer “J-Lo” Lopez movie, […]
Greetings! Those of you who follow the VWOP Twitter account have probably heard of Paperback Warrior. Paperback Warrior, as you can tell by the above image, is a website devoted to reviewing hard-boiled crime, mystery, men’s adventure, espionage, and western novels. Like the pulp novelists of yore, Eric and Tom crank ’em […] I’m very excited about this. IDW Publishing has just announced Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition: Last Call. For those of you not familiar with the first Martini Edition, it was released in 2011 and was a massive, and I mean massive slipcased volume containing the first two of Darwyn Cooke’s already-classic comic book […] Rififi (Portugal) 19?? Title translation: Hunter of Men
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