{"product_id":"slayground-9780226770925","title":"Slayground","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParker robs a rock concert, but the heist goes sour, and he finds himself - and his woman, Claire - menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hippies. Slayground turns the hunter into prey, as Parker gets trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Parker... lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark's noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells.... In a complex world he makes things simple.\" - William Grimes, New York Times \"Richard Stark's Parker novels... are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time.\" - John Banville, Bookforum \"The Parkers read with the speed of pulp while unfolding with an almost Nabokovian wit and flair.\" - Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times \"Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.\" - Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly \"Whatever Stark writes, I read.\" - Elmore Leonard\"","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524632846679,"sku":"9780226770925","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226770925.jpg?v=1731857548","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/slayground-9780226770925","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}