tough business:

a parker site

Slayground


Published: 1971.

Cover Artist: Peter Rauch.

Publisher: Random House.

Cover blurb: "Parker had the money. Now he was trapped and the mob was closing in..."

Synopsis: Stuck in an amusement park after a failed getaway, Parker has no choice but to turn it into a death trap for the men trying to steal his latest score.

Adaptations: - Slayground (1983), directed by Terry Bedford and starring Peter Coyote.

- Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground (2013), graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke and published by IDW.

Notes: - First chapter shared with The Blackbird, seen there from Alan Grofield's point of view.

Gallery:

L-R: Luna-Parker (Amusement Parker, Italy, 1972); Dødens Legeplads (Playground of Death, Denmark, 1972); 悪党パーカー/殺人遊園地 (Murder Amusement Park, Japan, 1977).

L-R: Moord in Het Lunapark (Murder in the Amusement Park, Netherlands, 1976); Planque à Luna-Park (Amusement Park Hideout, France, 1972); Dödlig Fälla (Deadly Trap, Sweden, 1972).


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