Breakout
Tired of do-gooder heroes saving the day? Meet Parker--just Parker to  you, bub--a one-man wrecking crew, cunning, fearless, and more than just a  little cold-blooded. Writing again under hard-boiled alter-ego Richard Stark,  Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake returns to the  violent world of his legendary criminal creation withBreakout.This time around Parker has picked certain members of his crew wrong and the job  goes south right into the county lockup. Alone and isolated, the antihero finds  himself without much wiggle room. But experienced Stark readers know, wiggling  is what the slippery Parker does best. InBreakout, he wiggles himself  out of jail and right into an even more dangerous situation involving an armory,  a tunnel, and a jewelry wholesaler.While there are rough spots here and there,Breakoutis simply another  fun-to-read Parker novel, taking readers again to the flip side where the bad  guys win and the good guys are never as good as they should be. Call it a great  escape because, with this Parker novel in particular, that's just what it is.--Jeremy Pugh