Donald E Westlake (Richard Stark) Books in Order

Cooke adapts the legendary town-robbery caper, as Parker assembles a crew to loot every cash business in an isolated mining community in one night. Meticulous planning, fraying tempers, and explosive double crosses play out in sharp, mid century visuals.

Continuing the graphic adaptation, this volume finds Parker using his new face and a network of fellow thieves to strike the Outfit’s rackets across the country. Casinos, couriers, and counting rooms fall in a stylish flurry of hard-edged blue and black panels.

This short graphic prelude bridges *The Hunter* and *The Outfit*, showing how Parker bought his new face and joined an armored car job that nearly goes sideways. It compresses the second novel into a tight, brutal slice of his working life.

Darwyn Cooke’s graphic novel adapts Parker’s first outing, following his grim walk into 1960s New York to punish the wife and partner who betrayed him and to confront the Outfit. Bold, economical artwork matches the story’s cold, methodical violence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.