The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold (Chicago Visions and Revisions)

You probably haven't ever noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits, the positions of the security guards.Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds.Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at the racetrack.They're thieves.Heisters, to be precise. They're pros, and Parker is far and away the best of them.If you're planning a job, you want him in. Tough, smart, hardworking, and relentlessly focused on his trade, he is the heister's heister, the robber's robber, the heavy's heavy.You don't want to cross him, and you don't want to get in his way, because he'll stop at nothing to get what he's after.Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir.Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-shar