Richard Stark: The Handle (USA 2009) From the Publisher: In The Seventh, the heist of a college football game goes bad, and the take is stolen by a crazed, violent amateur. Parker must outrun the cops -- and the killer -- to retrieve his cash. In The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. The Rare Coin Score features the first appearance of Claire, who will steal Parker's heister's heart -- while together they steal two million dollars of rare coins. Richard Stark: The Handle. A Parker Novel. With a new Foreword by Luc Sante. University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226771069 (August, 2009), 176 p., $14.00.
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