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smittycl

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Atmospheric WWII espionage novels sounds nice (sometime in the late 70s, early 80s I read all the Alistair MacLean my library had to offer).
My Dad was a big Alistair MacLean fan so I read them all as well. That guys could write a tight story.

Lots of paperback in our house. Funny how his Harold Robbins books always opened to the same pages when set on the spine…
 

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Richard Stark: The Hunter, 1962.

"If I know you, you want him for something he won't like."
"I'm going to kill him," Parker said.
She smiled, nodding. "There," she said. "That's something he won't like."

As Richard Stark Donald E Westlake wrote more than 20 Parker novels, this being the first. A revenge story, it interestingly changes its POV from the hunter to the hunted and back to the hunter. And uncharacteristically for a modern printing of an older book, this one comes with a rather attractive cover design, from The University of Chicago Press:

Parker_1.jpg


The ruthlessly efficient, highly amoral heist specialist inspired several movie adaptations (some French). Just from this one there was Payback with Mel Gibson from 1999 (kinda trashy but rather entertaining) and Point Blank with Lee Marvin from 1967 (a personal neo-noir favourite).
 

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