'Ask The Parrot' by Richard Stark ( D.E.Westlake ) has Parker on the run from capture in the backwoods of Massachusetts. He's barely ahead of police dogs when he breaks through the trees and brush to confront an old codger with a gun. The old man,Lindahl, thinks about the situation and whisks Parker back to his ramshackle home.Parker is soon let into what is behind this old man's thoughts in giving Parker refuge. He's bitter and full of revenge from a past where he was dishonored and thrown aside after being a whistle-blower on political wrong doing. He wants revenge and Parker can help make it happen. Alone with only a silent Parrot he vents his reasons and plans to make those who castigated him pay. It's a wild scheme and there's enough money in it to raise Parker's interest.The chase for Parker isn't over though and with the locals brought in to make a search party for hunting the fugitive, trouble lurks within the community and Parker becomes a target, once again, and faces a win or loose outcome. Another well written darker side by Westlake's pseudonym, Richard Stark.

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