as you know, the hunter (aka point blank and payback) was the first parker book written/published.
--- On Sat, 1/3/09, DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net <DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
> From: DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net <DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Donald Westlake, An Appreciation
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> Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 1:42 PM
> Jeff asked:
>
> "So, The Hunter is the second Paker novel?"
>
> According to Berkeley Medallion it was. They started their
> numbering
> with Slayground, which was the one new paperback they
> published in their
> short Violent World of Parker series (with that label in
> the upper left
> hand corner of each cover, along with the number they
> assigned), then
> followed it with four or five more, starting with Point
> Blank (the title
> they used for The Hunter, even though the movie was largely
> forgotten in
> those pre-home video days. The others were random choices,
> too, no
> order. I remember they published The Score as Killtown,
> The Outfit,
> maybe one or two of the others with Score in the title, but
> not Man with
> the Getaway Face or, I don't think, The Jugger.
>
> Mark
>
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