What the books are about Flashfire

Melander likes to do things flashy. When Parker finds himself working with Melander on a bank heist in a mid-sized midwestern city, his job is throwing a Molotov cocktail into a gas station. The explosion sends the cops and fire trucks to the east side of town, while Melander and his gang plunder the bank on the west side. But Parker doesn’t care for Melander’s plan for a new heist, one that will clean out Palm Beach of a lot of very expensive jewellery. What Parker dislikes is Melander’s intention to use the proceeds from the bank job to capitalise the Palm Beach job including Parker’s cut. Melander is very polite about Parker’s disinterest, and very sincere about paying him his share with interest after the jewellery job. But that’s how Parker works. Now he’s tailing the gang down South, with a plan for getting his own back... and the entire swag of gems besides.

Breakout

In a drab warehouse in a drab city in the centre of an empty state, Parker is caught moving pharmaceuticals into a waiting truck. Led into a joint called Stoneveldt — from which no one has ever escaped — Parker has to find a way out, before his whole violent past catches up with him. And getting out of Stoneveldt means taking on the only partners he can find, including one who is already planning his next job. For Parker and his fellow jail breakers, freedom is just another word for committing their next felony. They pull off the perfect jailbreak and start the perfect heist. But things go south in a hurry — leaving three men dead and Parker and his fellow escape artists running for their lives. Suddenly, the big, drab city in the big, empty Midwestern state has become a prison. A cast of cops, busybodies, snitches, and weak links have turned into jailers. And for Parker, the ultimate jailbreak is about to begin.

Firebreak

Parker put down the body and answered the phone. And from that moment on he had two jobs to do. One to rob a remote Montana lodge where a dotcom billionaire hid stolen art treasures, the other to find out why a hit man had come to Parker’s home, and who had sent him. He wasn’t the only one in his crew with scores to settle. Recently released from prison, Lloyd is the brains behind the Montana heist, the only guy who can crack the lodge’s alarm system. But Lloyd had a quarrel with some former partners — and a temper. And when he shoots a guy through the eye, Parker happens to be by his side. Now Parker and his would-be partner are both cutting swaths of destruction on their way to Montana. With broken bodies and promises piling up behind them, one question remains: Is there enough room in this heist for both men to come out alive?

Point blank

The hunted becomes the hunter. Parker is a master thief, and a man with a heart of steel. He believes in the oldest law of all — a life for a life. His one-time partner, Mal, tried to pull a fast one, making off with Parker’s share of the takings after a successful heist, as well as Parker’s wife, Lynn. They thought they had left him for dead, but Parker survived their bullets and now he’s out for revenge and prepared to do whatever it takes. The prey has become the hunter, and Parker is stalking them, leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. Point Blank remains one of the most distinctive crime thrillers ever written.

Glass Tiger

Only one man in America can foil a world-class assassin — his doppelganger. Brendan Thorne, ex-Ranger, ex-killing machine has benched himself in Kenya. “No, never again killing,” he’s vowed. In another part of the world, US President-Elect Gustave Wallberg’s experiences will send Thorne back into action. Wallberg has received a letter that terrifies him: “CONGRATULATIONS TO A DEAD PRESIDENT. CORWIN.” Hal Corwin, Gus Wallberg’s former best friend and current bete noir, is an ex-Special Forces sniper of mythic reputation. A computer search has convinced Wallberg and his advisors that the best person to stop a Corwin assassination attempt is someone whose attributes, personality and experience are so like the assassin’s that the nemesis is his mirror image: Thorne.