Nobody Runs Forever

With Nobody Runs Forever, book #22 in the series, Parker jarringly joins the modern world of cell phones, high-tech wires, and post-9/11 law enforcement tactics. But the plot (involving the theft of four armored trucks with over $1 million) is a satisfying one. And as always, Stark comes up with economical character descriptions that capture essential details in a short sentence: "She wasn't slender; she was bone thin, and inside the stylish clothes she walked with a graceless jitteriness, like someone whose medicine had been cut off too soon."