The Hunter -A Parker Novel

Question 0

Who is parker

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Main character and fictional criminal

Question 1

Author name

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Richard stark pseudonym for donald westlake

Question 2

What are parkers qualities?

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No traditional qualities. He is ruthless, cold, methodical and willing. To commit murder to get what he wants. In criminal terms one might call him efficientabd professional

Question 3

Rules he lives by…

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He will not double cross a criminal he is working with.

If he is double crossed he methodically plans revenge.

Question 4

What is parkers full name

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Never said in book. Might even be an alias

Question 5

Main plot of book

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Parker chases an exassociate who double crossed him on a heist and left him for dead. He survives but is arrested.

Question 6

Slowly and methodically parker tracks down who

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Mal resnick his former accomplice

Question 7

Who did mal convince to shoot parker

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His wife, Lynn

Question 8

The gambling syndicate is aka

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The outfit

Question 9

When the outfit refuses to make good on parkers 40000 owed from resnick he

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Takes on the outfit

Question 10

Parkers plans fall apart sometimes due to

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Bad luck bad partners greed incompetence

Question 11

Parker has to work but the plans

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Careful plans tend to fall apart

Question 12

What name is lined to his fingerprints

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Ronald Kasper

Question 13

Parker said he first used a gun where

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In germany maybe meaning he was in ww2

Question 14

The novel does not address good and evil

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True

Question 15

There seems to be an underlying theme that all business is crime

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True

Question 16

He is a loner competing with conglomerates surrounded by amateurs. He seems to have no interest in the world, weather etc.

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True

Question 17

Why does he want money, for power?

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No. Not interested in power. Rather wants money to buy quiet. Ironic. Cant find quiet without drama?

Question 18

Why is he concerned about fingerprints?

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They are linked to death of prison guard.

Question 19

Always on the move, hunted, hunting, scheming, cheating, brutalizing, hunting for money too. Stange line between justice and mercy.

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Lack of humanity. No guilt, empathy, learning

Question 20

How is he physically described

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Big shaggy square shouldered

Question 21

Where does joe sheer live who people can call if they need parker

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Nebraska

Question 22

What did he do after a job

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Have sex

Question 23

What is the pattern

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Commit heist, livevin luxury hotel with wife, commit another heist when needed.

Question 24

What heist goes wrong

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A crew from california in a munitions cash heist. Heist fine but double crossed.

Question 25

First crime back in new york city

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Identity theft

Question 26

How does lynn the wife die

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Sleeping pills

Question 27

Taxi dispatcher

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Arthur stegman, the money couriers boss

Question 28

Mals job

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Regional manager of the outfit

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Mals screwup for the outfit

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80000 in chicago

Question 30

Outfits new york manager

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Frederick carter

Question 31

Carters supervisor

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Bronson who is threatened with loss of carter and now fairfax and infiltration

Question 32

Who informed mal that parker was in town

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Stegman

Question 33

Why do police question parker

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They think he is drug smuggling

Question 34

Where is he going to spend money

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Moving to florida and plastic surgery

Question 35

When written

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1962

Question 36

Book opens where ...location

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George washington bridge

Question 37

Latent fag ....define

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Inclination to be gay without acting on it.

Question 38

Wallet brown leather empty and beat to hell

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Metaphor for parker

Question 39

Define taut

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Stretched or pulled tight

Question 40

Kept working on his face so that he didnt look mean or mad

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Recurring theme not what he seems, later wants plastic surgery

Question 41

What was his fake name for bank

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Edward johnson

Question 42

Bank account not found "easy come easy go"

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Didn't feel that way when he was robbed

Question 43

When do we hear about a dime

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Panhandled it from a latent gag, bought coffee with it, waitress threw it out as her tip , didn't have it to use for pay toilet

Question 44

Describes the ordinary details of setting often, strange contrast to the

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Bizarre nature of events and actions of the story

Question 45

Parker calls Lynn the Judas Ewe what does that mean

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Betraying female

Question 46

How much does courier bring to Lynn on the 1st of each month?

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1000

Question 47

Define glowering

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To look or stare with anger

Question 48

When the book references that lynn calls him by name does she ever really say his name

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No, perhaps because his name is not really parker.

Question 49

Did parker plan to kill wife

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No

Question 50

How many days did parker have to wait for courier after lynn died

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Threevor four days

Question 51

What is vag short for

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Vagabond

Question 52

Did parker feel emotion?

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Only for lynn, love and hate

Question 53

What did he do with lynns body

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Carried her in broad daylight to park, again there things arent what they seem, then slashed her face to make it appear something different

Question 54

What was lynn's last name

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Parker

Question 55

Courier's name

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Sydney Chalmers

Question 56

Any religious references?

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Yes Lynn with Parker.... Swears on cross

Question 57

What were they doing in the taxi back room

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Playing 7 card stud

Question 58

What is bush league

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Inferior league, originally meant those that played baseball in the country bush.

Question 59

Where did stegman drive parker to talk

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The beach parking lot by jamaica bay off rockaway parkway

Question 60

Who reports to whom

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Bronson- Carter/fairfax- Mal resnick - Arthur Stegman - Sydney Chalmers

Question 61

Parker knew stegman was a dead end

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Because no one tailed parker

Question 62

Who was involved in the 80000 heist in canada

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Parker, lynn, mal and a canadian named chester

Question 63

Who put on money for heist

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Bleek a lawyer from california

Question 64

Who could fly the plane

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Ryan and suprisingly mal

Question 65

How many men did they encounter on the island

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15

Question 66

Ryan slit whose throat

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Bleek the old man...CHECK THIS ONE

Question 67

What saved parker from the six shots

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One in his buckle, 5 missed, then they set fire to the house

Question 68

How many days did parker lay hiding

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3

Question 69

How did the others die on the heist

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Which one did it. Mal was gone. Chester and sil killed by ryan by slitting throat. Lynn shot parker.how did ryan die? .Bullet holes near landing strip....CHECK THIS ANSWER

Question 70

How much longer did parker have in jail before he killed the guard

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Two months

Question 71

Mals girlfriend

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Pearl, who seems like a real person

Question 72

What is the name of the outfits hotel

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Oakwood arms

Question 73

Define junketing

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Taking a trip or tour

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Mals girlfriend pearl was on

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Heroin

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Before mal was in the outfit e was a

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Cab driver

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Mals girlfriend could not feel pain unlike

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Lynn

Question 77

Mal called everyone a

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Sweetie

Question 78

What was the name of the bar

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Landau's

Question 79

Who is often described as big and mean with big hands with veins

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Parker

Question 80

Parker never told stegman how to contact him about mal

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True. Then mal told stegman to find parke

Question 81

Phil had 4 rooms mal had

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2.

Question 82

Define mettle.

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...

Question 83

Mal asked phil for help with

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Setting up an apointment with justin fairbanks or mr carter. Because it wasnt outfit business or hed go thru phil

Question 84

3 choices given to mal from carter

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1give you assistance protecting our investment 2 handle it yourself proving you are self reliant 3 have you replaced and we do have the question since the blunder in chicago They chose 2

Question 85

Truth could be worse than lie...wouldn't tell carter about true heist instead lied that it was a desmoine payroll job. Why

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Because the munitions deal could have been the outfit meaning he could have stole from cartrr.

Question 86

What did mal splurge on

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A four room 32 a night suit and a 100 athletic blond.... Beneath it all the room was old and impersonal beneath the overlay. It could be occupied bur not lived in. And mrcarter was watching nowand he couldnt use the boys

Question 87

Mal lied to ryan that parker was double crossing them and he would kill them too. Ryan wasnt sure. Mal slit chesters throat and blamed it on parker. Ryan was ready to shoot him with a gun than mal had another idea...

Answer 87

More complicated more risky more dangerous.... Lynn.

Question 88

Parker was going to go see mal the night parker was shot was he really going to,shoot mal ?

Answer 88

Not sure, need to,look up

Question 89

Cigs cheap in dc expensive in canada. Whiskey is cheap in canada expensive in dc. Where is the midstop

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New york

Question 90

Why did mal not tell lynn how to find him

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Because he knew she would never want to unless she wanted to killl him

Question 91

Name of bodega

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Delgado....where he looked for jimmy delgardo,

Question 92

Bartender name

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Bernie...works where the hustlers are.....parker told him he was looking for his so called sister rosalie actually wanda a hustler he knew,,,green eyes red hair conical breasts slender waist

Question 93

Define lugubriously

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Full of sadness and sorrow.

Question 94

Wanda could help parker get in to where mal was hiding but if he got caught he said he would blame.

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Stegman. She told him oakwood arms 361 but mal was already gone.

Question 95

Parker hid here leaving his prints everywhere and he killed a second person here

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The beauty salon. The lady with asthma. He was watching the oakwood arms trying to figure a way into the office building next to it. He decided to do so by delivering coffee.

Question 96

Wanda called irma to find out where mal was with a prostitute and used the excuse he

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Owed her 20 bucks

Question 97

Why is wanda the prostitute on vacation

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Because she has her monthly period

Question 98

After killing mal parker went to see

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Carter.

Question 99

Who killed carter

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Parker and then made his move on fairfax...bronson said no

Question 100

Parker said syndicate easy to hit because it is

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Organized

Question 101

Parler killed stegman with the

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Butt of a gun near the end of the subway line.

Question 102

The ending scenes are centered around a train railyard. He is careful not to step on the

Answer 102

Electrified third rail covered with wood.the suitcase he retrieved there was 45000 which he eventually loses leaving behind with two cops requiring him to do one more syndicate job this time he got 23000.... Miami looked fine in the end or maybe he would go to the keys

Question 103

Copyright

Answer 103

1962