The lost "Richard Stark" novel by Grand Master Donald E. Westlake (first new edition printed in almost 20 years!), takes a colleague of the notorious heist-master Parker from Las Vegas to the Midwest to New York in pursuit of a score too dangerous to attempt - and revenge too important not to.

When he's not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately - which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers' plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York.

Unfortunately, Myers' plan is insane - so Grofield walks out on him. But Myers isn't a man you walk out on, and his retribution culminates in an act of unforgivable brutality.

That's when Grofield decides to show him what a disciple of Parker is capable of...