title: The Handle: A Parker Novel
author:  Richard Stark 
description: <DIV>&ldquo;Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.&rdquo;<BR></DIV> (Stephen King <i>Entertainment Weekly</i>)<br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark&rsquo;s noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world [he] makes things simple.&rdquo;<BR></DIV> (William Grimes <i>New York Times</i>)<br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;Whatever Stark writes, I read. He&rsquo;s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.&rdquo;<BR></DIV> (Elmore Leonard)<br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;Richard Stark&rsquo;s Parker novels . . . are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time.&rdquo;<BR></DIV> (John Banville <i>Bookforum</i>)<br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;Parker is a true treasure. . . . The master thief is back, along with Richard Stark.&rdquo;</DIV><BR> (Marilyn Stasio <i>New York Times Book Review</i>)<br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;Westlake knows precisely how to grab a reader, draw him or her into the story, and then slowly tighten his grip until escape is impossible.&quot;</DIV><BR> (<i>Washington Post</i>)<br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;Elmore Leonard wouldn&rsquo;t write what he does if Stark hadn&rsquo;t been there before. And Quentin Tarantino wouldn&rsquo;t write what he does without Leonard. . . . Old master that he is, Stark does all of them one better.&rdquo;<BR></DIV> (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>)<br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;Donald Westlake&rsquo;s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you&rsquo;ve been telling yourself about <I>War and Peace</I> and Proust&mdash;these are the books you&rsquo;ll want on that desert island.&rdquo;<BR></DIV> (Lawrence Block)<br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity&mdash;a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.&rdquo;</DIV><BR> (Anthony Boucher <i>New York Times Book Review</i>)<br /><br /><DIV>&quot;Parker is a brilliant invention. . . . What chiefly distinguishes Westlake, under whatever name, is his passion for process and mechanics. . . . Parker appears to have eliminated everything from his program but machine logic, but this is merely protective coloration. He is a romantic vestige, a free-market anarchist whose independent status is becoming a thing of the past.&quot;<BR></DIV> (Luc Sante <i>New York Review of Books</i>)
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  The Impulsive Lord Parker
  
  
  A Historical Bi-Curious Romance
  
  
  
  
  
  By Anne Shaw
  
  
    
  The Impulsive Lord Parker
  
  
  Copyright (C) 2020 by Sherri Shaftic
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in
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  Table of Contents
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  [Chapter One](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176086)
  
  
  [Chapter Two](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176087)
  
  
  [Chapter Three](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176088)
  
  
  [Chapter Four](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176089)
  
  
  [Chapter Five](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176090)
  
  
  [Chapter Six](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176091)
  
  
  [Chapter Seven](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176092)
  
  
  [Chapter Eight](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176093)
  
  
  [Chapter Nine](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176094)
  
  
  [Chapter Ten](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176095)
  
  
  [Chapter Eleven](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176096)
  
  
  [Chapter Twelve](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176097)
  
  
  [Chapter Thirteen](part0000.xhtml#_Toc49176098)
  
  
  [Chapter Fourteen](part0000.xhtml#_