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Richard Stark

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Richard Stark

Richard Stark is one of the preeminent authors-and inventors-of noir crime fiction. Stark's recent Parker novels COMEBACK and BACKFLASH were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. His first novel, THE HUNTER, became the classic 1967 movie Point Blank. Thirty years later THE HUNTER was adapted again by Hollywood, in the hit Mel Gibson movie Payback.

Richard Stark is also, at times, mystery Grand Master Donald E. Westlake.

Richard Stark

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by Richard Stark - Fiction

Hurricane Anna: a superstorm made up of two Category 5 hurricanes coming together to wreak unprecedented havoc along the eastern seaboard. When the superstorm hits, the correctional officers at Ravenhill flee, opening all the cell doors and leaving the inmates to fend for themselves as the floodwaters rise. But Jack Constantine, an ex-cop serving ten years for killing one of his wife's murderers, isn't going to just lay down and die, not when the rest of his wife's murderers are now free. Meanwhile, Kiera Sawyer, a Correctional Officer on her first day at work is the only officer left behind when the others flee. Sawyer rescues Jack and offers to team up, but that involves making their way through the prison, made dangerous by the storm and 800 desperate prisoners.