Richard Stark: Parker’s Rules

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Parker’s Rules

1. Don’t ever show a gun to a man you don’t want to kill.
2. Don’t talk to the law.
3. Always split the money fair.
4. Each man for himself.
5. Don’t kill somebody unless you have to. It puts the law on you like nothing else.
6. Never leave a guy alive who’d like to see you dead.
7. Don’t let yourself be framed in a lit doorway.
8. Don’t meet in a town where you’re going to make a hit.
9. Don’t stay in the hotel where you’re going to make a hit.
10. Don’t take a job on consignment.
11. Don’t work with anyone you can’t trust or don’t respect.
12. When there’s no place to hide, stay where you are.
13. Any job that requires more than five guys to be pulled can’t be pulled.
14. For a big enough score, any rule can be broken.