The man with the getaway face is the second novel in richard starks parker series this time out parker is fresh from plastic surgery to keep the syndicate from finding him after all the trouble he caused them parker with a new face a dwindling funds and a chance at a payoff from a sketchy armored car robbery. The university of chicago press has embarked on a project to return the early volumes of this series to print for a new generation of readers to discover and become addicted to parker goes under. The man with the getaway face is the second novel in richard starks parker series this time out parker is fresh from plastic surgery to keep the syndicate from finding him after all the trouble he caused them parker with a new face a dwindling funds and a chance at a payoff from a sketchy armored car robbery. Parker the ruthless antihero of richard starks eponymous mystery novels is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir lauded by critics for his taut realism unapologetic amorality and razor sharp prose style and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing urgency stark is a master of crime writing his books as influential as any in the genre. The man with the getaway face makes for a crackerjack novel richard stark sets down the four part structure common to all future parker novels planning the heist assembling the crew the heist itself the escape with betrayal ineptitude and or the double cross as real possibilities at every step