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Donald E Westlake Books in Order

Browse Donald E. Westlake novels in order, with brief summaries and suggestions on where to start with his comic capers and darker crime stories.

Last updated: December 25, 2025

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Call Me a Cab

by Donald E Westlake

2022

Forever and a Death

by Donald E Westlake

2017

The Getaway Car

by Donald E Westlake

2014

The Comedy is Finished

by Donald E Westlake

2012

Memory

by Donald E Westlake

2010

Get Real

by Donald E Westlake

2009

Dirty Money

by Richard Stark

2008

Returning to a New England town after the chaos of earlier jobs, Parker sets out to recover a hidden bundle of hot bank money before the law or rival thieves reach it. With federal agents, local cops, a bounty hunter, and old partners converging, every move could be his last.

What's So Funny?

by Donald E Westlake

2007

Ask The Parrot

by Richard Stark

2006

On the run after a botched armored car job, Parker limps into rural Massachusetts and takes refuge with a bitter loner nursing a grudge against the local racetrack. Together they plot one more score while police, posses, and armed neighbors close in.

Watch Your Back!

by Donald E Westlake

2005

The Road To Ruin

by Donald E Westlake

2004

Nobody Runs Forever

by Richard Stark

2004

Short on cash after a blown job, Parker signs onto a plan to rob an armored car convoy during a bank merger. Loose talk, a nervous ex-con, a relentless cop, and a hungry bounty hunter turn the dangerous theft into a tightening noose.

Money for Nothing

by Donald E Westlake

2003

Put a Lid on It

by Donald E Westlake

2002

Breakout

by Richard Stark

2002

Caught moving pharmaceuticals, Parker lands in a supposedly escape-proof prison where the authorities are close to learning who he really is. Teaming with two other inmates, he engineers a daring breakout that leads straight into a second, even messier job.

The Scared Stiff

by Donald E Westlake

2001

Firebreak

by Richard Stark

2001

A tip about a dot-com millionaire’s private gallery of stolen masterpieces draws Parker to a fortified lodge in the Montana woods. Balancing this risky art heist with unfinished business from earlier jobs, he faces high-tech security and lethal winter terrain.

Bad News

by Donald E Westlake

2001

The Hook

by Donald E Westlake

2000

Flashfire / Parker

by Richard Stark

2000

Cut out of his share after a Midwestern bank robbery, Parker is told his partners are “borrowing” the money for a jewel heist in Palm Beach. Building a fake identity among the rich, he plans to steal their big score out from under them.

Backflash

by Richard Stark

1998

Parker breaks one of his own rules by taking a job on a Hudson River gambling boat stuffed with cash. With an insider feeding the crew information and unexpected muscle on board, he has to improvise fast or go down with the score.

The Ax

by Donald E Westlake

1997

Comeback

by Richard Stark

1997

After robbing the cash haul from a stadium revival meeting, Parker is double crossed by one of his own crew and cut off from the money. Posing as an insurance investigator, he works alongside the evangelist's security chief to find the loot first.

What's The Worst That Could Happen?

by Donald E Westlake

1996

Smoke

by Donald E Westlake

1995

Baby, Would I Lie?

by Donald E Westlake

1994

Don't Ask

by Donald E Westlake

1993

Humans

by Donald E Westlake

1992

Drowned Hopes

by Donald E Westlake

1990

The Fourth Dimension Is Death

by Donald Westlake

1989

Trust Me On This

by Donald E Westlake

1988

What I Tell You Three Times Is False

by Donald Westlake

1987

One Of Us Is Wrong

by Donald Westlake

1986

I Know A Trick Worth Two Of That

by Donald Westlake

1986

High Adventure

by Donald E Westlake

1985

Good Behavior

by Donald E Westlake

1985

A Likely Story

by Donald E Westlake

1984

Why Me?

by Donald E Westlake

1983

Kahawa

by Donald E Westlake

1981

Castle in the Air

by Donald E Westlake

1980

Nobody's Perfect

by Donald E Westlake

1977

Dancing Aztecs

by Donald E Westlake

1976

Two Much

by Donald E Westlake

1975

Brothers Keepers

by Donald E Westlake

1975

Jimmy The Kid

by Donald E Westlake

1974

Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner

by Donald E Westlake

1974

Butcher's Moon

by Richard Stark

1974

Back in the corrupt town where he once lost a stash and nearly his life, Parker calls in favors from a long list of past accomplices. What starts as a hunt for missing money explodes into a brutal gang war played out in city streets and back rooms.

Gangway!

by Donald E Westlake

1973

Plunder Squad

by Richard Stark

1972

Moving between overlapping jobs, from hijacked cargo to an ambitious art theft, Parker finds himself juggling too many partners, buyers, and grudges. An old enemy on his trail and a string of misfires leave him fighting just to escape with his life.

Don't Lie To Me

by Donald E Westlake

1972

Cops and Robbers

by Donald E Westlake

1972

Bank Shot

by Donald E Westlake

1972

Slayground

by Richard Stark

1971

A getaway crash strands Parker alone with the loot inside a closed-for-winter amusement park. Surrounded by mobsters and crooked cops who control the only exit, he turns Fun Island into a lethal maze where every ride can become part of a trap.

Lemons Never Lie

by Richard Stark

1971

Actor-thief Alan Grofield turns down a reckless brewery payroll job in Las Vegas, only to be beaten and robbed by the man who proposed it. When the trouble follows him home to Indiana, he is pushed into a violent, very personal campaign of payback.

I Gave at the Office

by Donald E Westlake

1971

Deadly Edge

by Richard Stark

1971

Parker’s crew robs the cash take from a roaring rock concert and splits up, thinking the hard part is over. When someone begins murdering the heisters and traces the trail to Claire’s new house, Parker has to defend his home and settle the score.

Wax Apple

by Donald E Westlake

1970

The Hot Rock

by Donald E Westlake

1970

Ex Officio

by Donald E Westlake

1970

Comfort Station

by Donald E Westlake

1970

Adios Scheherazade

by Donald E Westlake

1970

A Jade In Aries

by Donald E Westlake

1970

Up Your Banners

by Donald E Westlake

1969

The Sour Lemon Score

by Richard Stark

1969

After a tight bank job, Parker expects an easy split, until one partner seizes the whole take and starts killing the rest of the crew. With cops circling and bodies falling, Parker hunts the traitor who should have made sure he was dead first.

The Dame

by Richard Stark

1969

Summoned to Puerto Rico by a mysterious offer, Grofield ends up at the hilltop estate of Belle Danamato and tangled in a classic country-house murder when she turns up dead. Accused by mobsters and guests alike, he has to clear himself and escape alive.

The Blackbird

by Richard Stark

1969

After an armored car job explodes into disaster, Grofield wakes in a hospital under federal guard. Offered prison or a covert assignment at an international conference of dictators and revolutionaries, he is dragged into espionage he wants no part of.

Somebody Owes Me Money

by Donald E Westlake

1969

Who stole Sassi Manoon?

by Donald E Westlake

1968

The Black Ice Score

by Richard Stark

1968

Envoys from a newly independent African nation ask Parker to help steal back a fortune in diamonds looted by a corrupt strongman and now locked in a New York museum. Training political amateurs for a professional heist proves as risky as the job itself.

The Rare Coin Score

by Richard Stark

1967

Against his better judgment, Parker agrees to mastermind the robbery of a high-end coin convention, working with a nervy collector and a sophisticated widow. The payoff could be huge, but amateurs and attraction are both dangerous to a professional thief.

The Green Eagle Score

by Richard Stark

1967

Relaxing in Puerto Rico with Claire, Parker is lured into a job targeting the cash payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York. An edgy insider, a talkative ex-wife, and a loose-lipped therapist threaten to bring the whole operation down.

The Damsel

by Richard Stark

1967

Shot up after a Parker caper, Grofield limps into a Mexico City hotel room and straight into the troubles of a woman on the run from killers and political schemers. Their frantic journey toward Acapulco mixes romance, gunfire, and half-baked revolution.

Philip

by Donald E Westlake

1967

Murder Among Children

by Donald E Westlake

1967

God Save the Mark

by Donald E Westlake

1967

Anarchaos

by Donald E Westlake

1967

The Seventh / The Split

by Richard Stark

1966

After a meticulously timed college football stadium robbery, Parker hides the cash and goes home, only to return to a murdered girlfriend and an empty room. Hunting the thief while dodging detectives, he turns a perfect score into a personal vendetta.

The Handle / Run Lethal

by Richard Stark

1966

Parker is hired by the mob to knock over an island casino and destroy a rival’s operation off the Texas coast. With Alan Grofield on the crew and betrayals waiting on the island, the line between a clean getaway and a watery grave is razor thin.

The Busy Body

by Donald E Westlake

1966

Spy in the Ointment

by Donald E Westlake

1966

Kinds Of Love, Kinds Of Death

by Donald E Westlake

1966

The Jugger

by Richard Stark

1965

Anxious letters from an aging safecracker draw Parker to a quiet Midwestern town, only for him to find the man dead and the police already suspicious. With his own identity at risk, Parker has to locate the missing money and silence anyone in his way.

The Fugitive Pigeon

by Donald E Westlake

1965

Pity Him Afterwards

by Donald E Westlake

1964

The Steel Hit / The Man With The Getaway Face

by Richard Stark

1963

With a surgically altered face and a price on his head, Parker signs on to an armored car job in New Jersey. A treacherous girlfriend and a nosy blackmailer turn the clean caper into a brutal fight to stay free.

The Score / Killtown

by Richard Stark

1963

In an audacious scheme, Parker agrees to clean out an entire North Dakota mining town in a single night, from both banks to the company payroll. With a crew this large, one bad decision can bring the whole town crashing back on them.

The Outfit

by Richard Stark

1963

After surviving a hit squad sent by the Outfit, Parker retaliates by organizing a string of robberies that target the syndicate’s businesses across the country. As the crews hit one operation after another, his private war escalates toward open bloodshed.

The Mourner

by Richard Stark

1963

Called in to repay an old debt, Parker is hired to snatch a small medieval statue known as the Mourner. The job drags him into a world of art collectors, crooked officials, and security men where nobody is quite what they claim to be.

Killy

by Donald E Westlake

1963

Campus Lovers

by Donald E Westlake

1963

What Girls Will Do

by Donald E Westlake

1962

Strange affair.

by Donald E Westlake

1962

Payback / Point Blank / The Hunter

by Richard Stark

1962

Double crossed by his wife and partner during an arms heist, Parker survives a bullet and a prison stretch, then walks into Manhattan with one goal: get his share of the money back from the Outfit, whatever it costs.

361

by Donald E Westlake

1962

Young and Innocent

by Donald E Westlake

1961

Passion's Playthings

by Donald E Westlake

1961

Killing Time

by Donald E Westlake

1961

Campus Doll

by Donald E Westlake

1961

Call Me Sinner

by Donald E Westlake

1961

Brother and Sister

by Donald E Westlake

1961

Virgin's Summer

by Donald E Westlake

1960

The Wife Next Door

by Donald E Westlake

1960

The Mercenaries/The Cutie

by Donald E Westlake

1960

SO WILLING.

by Donald E Westlake

1960

All about Annette

by Donald E Westlake

1960

Sally

by Donald E Westlake

1959

Man Hungry

by Donald E Westlake

1959

Backstage Love

by Donald E Westlake

1959

All My Lovers

by Donald E Westlake

1959

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109 Donald E Westlake Books in Order (Complete List 2026)