Racing through the backwoods of Massachusetts and on the verge of being taken down for one of the biggest and most disastrous bank heists the state has ever seen, Parker runs right into the barrel of a gun pointed from the wrong side of the law. A quiet and angry recluse with only a silent parrot for company in his seclusion, Tom Lindahl saves Parker from the police dogs, but enmeshes him in yet another in a long line of dubious, highly dangerous, but seriously profitable jobs. Far more than some aimless indigent, holed up in a shack in the woods, Lindahl is a man built on rage and driven by a thirst for revenge. A whistleblower whom nobody heard, a man tossed aside by a corrupt political establishment, Lindahl plans to rob them of their lucre and needs Parker's help.

Richard Stark, aka Donald E. Westlake, has written dozens of novels over the past 35 years under many pseudonyms. Many of his books have been filmed, most notably, The Hunter, which became the 1967 noir Point Blank and the 1999 smash Payback. Stark's recent Parker novels Comeback and Backflash were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year.