Thieves Dozen

On a literary landscape filled with cunning criminal masterminds, Donald E. Westlake's John Dortmunder is in a league of his own. With no scam too outrageous to contemplate, and no plan too simple to go wrong, this quirky career thief has stolen everything from money buried under a reservoir to a bank -- the whole bank. Now the ultimate repeat offender returns in a first-time collection of short stories proving that, just like bagels and donuts, with Dortmunder it's always better by the dozen... Book jacket.

Donald E. Westlake has written dozens of novels over the past thirty-five years. The author of the classic, hard-hitting Parker novels under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he has also written screenplays for acclaimed films such as The Stepfather and The Grifters