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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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