5 Top action books like Comeback (Parker, #17) by Richard Stark

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Comeback (Parker, #17)

By: Richard Stark

4.09

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A robbery of a Christian Crusade executed in the heat of the night comes off without a hitch, but i…

"A TV preacher, you know those guys? Evangelists." "I thought they were all in jail," Parker said."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

"A TV preacher, you know those guys? Evangelists." "I thought they were all in jail," Parker said."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

"She was naked, and remained the only woman in Archibald's experience to overflow her birthday suit."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

"She was naked, and remained the only woman in Archibald's experience to overflow her birthday suit."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

If you liked the action plot in Comeback (Parker, #17) by Richard Stark , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Bait Money (Nolan, #1) by Max Allan Collins

1. Bait Money (Nolan, #1)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.72

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

The mob couldn\x26#8217;t kill him, the cops couldn\x26#8217;t catch him, and even time wouldn\x26#… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Bait Money (Nolan, #1) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
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2. 361

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.56

Format: 207 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospita… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's 361 book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13) by Donald E. Westlake

3. Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

- After a year on the lam, the return of bumbling thief Dortmunder is a cause celebre. The author's… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of What's So Funny? (Dortmunder, #14) by Donald E. Westlake

4. What's So Funny? (Dortmunder, #14)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.94

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

All it takes is a few underhanded moves by a tough ex-cop named Eppick to pull Dortmunder into a ga… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's What's So Funny? (Dortmunder, #14) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
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5. The Drowning Pool

By: Ross Macdonald

3.58

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Drowning Pool book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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6. The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.83

Format: 28 pages,

'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGe… read more

Similar categories in John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5) by Lawrence Block

7. Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5)

By: Lawrence Block

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prost… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. Everybody Dies (Matthew Scudder, #14)

By: Lawrence Block

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Everybody Dies (Matthew Scudder, #14) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

9. Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)

By: Lawrence Block

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Small-time stoolie, Jake "The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard

10. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

By: Elmore Leonard

4.00

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I want you to understand,"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

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11. The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark, offers the third Alan Grofield novel of suspense. Gro… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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12. Miami Blues

By: Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) by Donald E. Westlake

13. Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Byzantine Fire: 90 carats of flawless ruby with great national and religious significance. It's… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) by Lawrence Block

14. The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a m… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

15. Riding the Rap

By: Elmore Leonard

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wicked and irresistible....Elmore Leonard is a literary genius." --New York Times Book Review Befo… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Riding the Rap book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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16. The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Get Real (Dortmunder, #15) by Donald E. Westlake

17. Get Real (Dortmunder, #15)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.33

Format: 277 pages,

In Donald E. Westlake's classic caper novels, the bad get better, the good slide a bit, and Lord he… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Get Real (Dortmunder, #15) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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18. Mr Majestyk

By: Elmore Leonard

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Once, Vincent Majestyk crashed through a jungle with an M-15 and a sack of grenades. Now he works u… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Mr Majestyk book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Comeback (Parker, #17) by Richard Stark

19. Comeback (Parker, #17)

By: Richard Stark

4.09

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A robbery of a Christian Crusade executed in the heat of the night comes off without a hitch, but i… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • hard boiled
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
"A TV preacher, you know those guys? Evangelists." "I thought they were all in jail," Parker said."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

"She was naked, and remained the only woman in Archibald's experience to overflow her birthday suit."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

Cover of Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7) by Donald E. Westlake

20. Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.14

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bumbling comic criminal John Dortmunder is in hot water as he tries to keep a nasty old man from bl… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

21. Even the Wicked (Matthew Scudder #13)

By: Lawrence Block

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An anonymous letter writer, the self-styled 'Will of the People', targets prominent criminals and e… read more

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22. The Switch

By: Elmore Leonard

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

"My favorite Leonard book....He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they shar… read more

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23. Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With th… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) book and Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

24. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

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25. The Road To Ruin (Dortmunder, #11)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Ever-lovable but hapless crook John Dortmunder and his merry band of misfits attempt to drive off w… read more

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26. The Busy Body

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Previously published in paperback by Ballantine. read more

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27. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

By: George V. Higgins

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more

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28. Somebody Owes Me Money (Hard Case Crime #44)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.86

Format: 144 pages,

read more

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29. Nobody's Perfect (Dortmunder, #4)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.10

Format: None pages,

The priceless painting is titled "Folly Leads to Man's Ruin," and its owner, the rich and careless … read more

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30. Jimmy The Kid (Dortmunder, #3)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here's the five-member Dortmunder Gang trying to achieve the perfect crime by following a paperback… read more

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31. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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