The Green Eagle Score — A Parker Novel book cover by Richard Stark
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The Green Eagle Score

Adult • Crime
A Parker Novel
Parker Novels • Book 10 of 24
Parker cuts vacation short for job Heist targets secure Air Force base Team includes newly released ex-con Unexpected complications arise Tension escalates throughout operation

Parker cuts short a vacation with Claire when a new job appears: steal the entire payroll from an Air Force base in upstate New York. He assembles a small team that includes Marty Fusco, just released from prison, and a smart-aleck finance clerk named Devers to carry out the risky plan.

The operation tests Parker's usual calculations as the ice proves thinner than he expects and unforeseen complications arise. The novel presents a tightly focused criminal operation, the practical details of the heist, and the escalating dangers that come with trying to take a very large score from a secure military installation.

Parker cuts his vacation with Claire short to steal the entire payroll from an Air Force base in upstate New York.
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Book details

Series
Parker Novels Book 10 of 24
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
May 15, 2010
Print length
183 pages
Language
English
ISBN
0226771083

Crime

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The description focuses on a single high-stakes heist and the people who attempt it. Much of the setup centers on Parker's professional methods, his brief partnership with Marty Fusco, and the inclusion of a finance clerk named Devers. The book emphasizes escalating danger, practical obstacles, and hard-edged criminal tradecraft rather than supernatural or speculative elements. This may appeal more to someone interested in procedural crime stories and gritty, action-oriented suspense.

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About the author

Richard Stark

Richard Stark

Donald Edwin Westlake (July 12, 1933 – December 31, 2008) was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction or other genres. He was a three-time Edgar Award winner, one of only three writers (the others are Joe Gores and William L. DeAndrea) to win Edgars in three different categories (1968, Best Novel, God Save the Mark; 1990, Best Short Story, "Too Many Crooks"; 1991, Best Motion Picture Screenplay, The Grifters). In 1993, the Mystery Writers of America named Westlake a Grand Master, the highest honor bestowed by the society. Richard Stark: Westlake's best-known continuing pseudonym was that of Richard Stark. Stark debuted in 1959, with a story in Mystery Digest. Four other Stark short stories followed through 1961, including "The Curious Facts Preceding My Execution", later the title story in Westlake's first short-story collection. Then, from 1962 to 1974, sixteen novels about the relentless and remorseless professional thief Parker and his accomplices (including larcenous actor Alan Grofield) appeared and were credited to Richard Stark. "Stark" was then inactive until 1997, when Westlake once again began writing and publishing Parker novels under Stark's name. The University of Chicago began republishing the Richard Stark novels in 2008.

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