By Morris Dean
With Taylor Hackford's 2012 film Parker, which I watched last August but forgot to review, another fictional character made it to the screen.* The most recent one I had then written about was Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone. The character Parker (played by Jason Stathan in the movie) was a career criminal in most of the novels Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) wrote under the pseudonym Richard Stark. (I read one or two of them many years ago, when I felt I needed to escape from serious reading.)
