The Hunter (1962) is a crime thriller novel, written by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym Richard Stark. It was the basis for three feature films: John Boorman's Point Blank (1967), starring Lee Marvin; Ringo Lam's Full Contact (1992), starring Chow Yun-fat, and Brian Helgeland's Payback (1999), starring Mel Gibson. The book was adapted as a graphic novel by artist Darwyn Cooke in 2009 as Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter.