After the bloodbath of Butcher's Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone." And for nearly twenty-five years, he stayed away, while readers waited...
The half-million dollar robbery of a Christian crusade engineered by Parker, Liss, and Mackey comes off without a hitch. Then the double cross begins Comeback, by hard-boiled crime writer Richard Stark, has been named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.