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The Hunter


Published: 1962.

AKA: Point Blank, The Exploiters, Payback.

Cover Artist: Harry Bennett.

Publisher: Pocket Books.

Cover blurb: "The tables were turned now -- suddenly the hunted had become The Hunter".

Synopsis: Betrayed and left for dead, Parker breaks out of prison to seek revenge on the man responsible and ends up taking on the Outfit in the process.

Adaptations: - Point Blank (1967), directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin.

- Payback (1999), directed by Brian Helgeland and starring Mel Gibson.

- Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter (2009), graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke and published by IDW.

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