for vagrancy and is imprisoned in a work camp under the name Ronald Kasper, a name that is linked to his real fingerprints. In the next five novels in the series, The Man with the Getaway Face, The Outfit, The Mourner, The Score, and The Jugger, Parker lives comfortably in a Florida hotel under the name Charles Willis between jobs, but is forced to abandon this identity (and the money that goes with it) when police show up at his hotel at the end of The Jugger. In some later books, he uses Edward Latham as his "straight" name. It's mainly other heavy heisters and people who live outside the law who know him as Parker. In the novel The Rare Coin Score, Parker meets Claire Carroll, the woman who will become his companion for the rest of the series. They live together somewhere in northern New Jersey in a lake house owned under the name Claire Willis (she took this surname from Parker's past). In the novel Backflash, their home is described as "a house on a lake called Colliver Pond, seventy miles from New York, a deep rural corner where New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania meet... mostly a resort community, lower-level white-collar, people who came here three months every summer and left their 'cottages' unoccupied the rest of the year... For Parker, it was ideal. A place to stay, to lie low when nothing was going on, a 'home' as people called it, and no neighbors. In the summer, when the clerks came out to swim and fish and boat, Parker and Claire went somewhere else." The Hunter (Pocket Books, 1962; re-released in 1999 under the title Payback as a movie tie-in by Grand Central Publishing) The Man with the Getaway Face (Pocket Books, 1963) also published as The Steel Hit The Outfit (Pocket Books, 1963) The Mourner (Pocket Books, 1963) The Score (Pocket Books, 1964) also published as Killtown The Jugger (Pocket Books, 1965) The Seventh (Pocket Books, 1966) also published as The Split The Handle (Pocket Books, 1966) also published as Run Lethal The Rare Coin Score (Gold Medal, 1967) The Green Eagle Score (Gold Medal, 1967) The Black Ice Score (Gold Medal, 1968) The Sour Lemon Score (Gold Medal, 1969) Deadly Edge (Random House, 1971) Slayground (Random House, 1971 — first chapter shared with The Blackbird, a novel in Westlake's Alan Grofield series)