The Man With the Getaway Face

THE MAN WITH THE
Getaway Face
(Also published as The Steel Hit)

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Hit and Run

In New York there was a contract on his life. In Nebraska there was a plastic surgeon guarded by a punch-drunk fighter. And somewhere in New Jersey there was a red armored car stuffed with money. Parker, his appearance altered, hadn't changed a bit: he was going to take the little red wagon down.

But there was a catch. There was always a catch. This one's name was Alma, a big, busty woman with anger etched onto her face and a plan to cross Parker and his crew. Now the questions were: Who was in it with Alma? And after the stealing, the shooting, and the stabbing stopped--who would be alive to make a getaway?

Parker and host of interesting characters plan the heist of an armored car. Another batch of bizarre characters wants him dead for a murder he didn't commit...for once. The usual backstabbing and double-dealing goes on, and as usual, Parker does what it takes to live through it all.

A less brutal book than The Hunter, but Parker is still a bastard. We get further insight into how he thinks, and we learn that he regrets a couple of the killings in The Hunter, although the reader will probably not agree with his reasons for these regrets.

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Sorry this graphic is so big and bulky, but I wanted you to be able to read the back-of-book text.

Here's my recreation of the first page blurb:

Parker--

Parker's vocation is taking things that belong to others, things like large payrolls from armored trucks. His coups are ingenious and brilliant, but the touble is that there is not always honor among thieves. They tend to be greedy, treacherous and given to the double cross.

Now it isn't so much that Parker is visious or even vindictive by nature. It's just that he has a pretty elemental philosophy about people--individually or in groups--who get in his way or covet that which is unrightfully his.

Once several of them tried; they thought he was dead. Then suddenly there he was--tall, crag-like, mean. This time he turned up with an $18,000 face that no one recognized, until too late.

Parker always seems to make a habit of doing the entertainingly unexpexted. Keep an eye out for him the next time he comes your way!

THE
   MAN
         WITH THE
GETAWAY
                 FACE
is another exciting original Pocket Book edition.

To Justin Scott's introduction from the Gregg Press edition

To The Hunter, the previous book in the Parker series

To The Outfit, the next book in the Parker series

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