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While he shares events and characters with several Parker novels, Grofield is less calculating and more hot-blooded than Parker; t.
Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker universe, starring Alan Grofield, an occasional colleague of Parker.
Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists.
Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction.
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