butcher's moon was like this big nasty gnarly complicated crime novel it's very different from the Parker formula which usually has four parts
Butcher's Moon (1974)
Stark's antihero Parker attempts to retrieve money he had to leave in an amusement park, but the money is gone. He enlists Alan Grofield to assist, but when Grofield is taken hostage, Parker assembles a private army to get him back and rob the mob blind at the same time.
those are the last two and they were brutal complex great titles plunder squad butcher's moon and back to the sort of heist thing and you know the characters are broader and it's the early 70s so we're just starting to see some cultural changes
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