Having used Parker in his books under his pen name Richard Stark, variants of the character have been depicted in such classics as Point Blank with Lee Marvin and Mel Gibson in Payback.

Richard Parker had made the fatal mistake of drinking ... forever linking the realm of imagination with the stark and brutal realities of a true story that shocked a nation and reshaped the ...

John McLaughlin wrote the script for Parker, which is based on the novel Flashfire by Donald E. Westlake, which he wrote under the pen name Richard Stark. McLaughlin worked with Statham two years ...