{"product_id":"9780226770642","title":"Flashfire: A Parker Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween Parker’s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital—the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.\u003c\/p\u003e But cash isn’t everything: \u003ci\u003eFlashfire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFirebreak\u003c\/i\u003e find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and a collection of priceless paintings. In \u003ci\u003eFlashfire\u003c\/i\u003e, Parker’s in West Palm Beach, competing with a crew that has an unhealthy love of explosions; when things go sour, Parker finds himself shot and trapped—and forced to rely on a civilian to survive. \u003ci\u003eFirebreak\u003c\/i\u003e takes Parker to a palatial Montana \"hunting lodge\" where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen old masters—which will fetch Parker a pretty penny if his team can just get it past the mansion’s tight security. The forests of Montana are an inhospitable place for a heister when well-laid plans fall apart, but no matter how untamed the wilderness, Parker’s guaranteed to be the most dangerous predator around.   “Like all of Stark’s Parker novels, \u003ci\u003eFirebreak\u003c\/i\u003e is a brutal yet compelling glimpse into the amoral world of crime and revenge.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e   “The action [in \u003ci\u003eFlashfire\u003c\/i\u003e] is nonstop. . . . The awful fascination in these Parker tales comes from knowing the protagonist will always do whatever is necessary to protect himself and to achieve his goals.”—\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078099386608,"sku":"9780226770642","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226770642_p0.jpg?v=1763675277","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226770642","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}