[20] Lord Ted Willis British Television dramatist and playwright, in his foreword, described Parker as "A bright new talent".The novel was widely reviewed[21][22][23] His third novel The Pool was a satire about corruption in local government.

[27] The novel was subscribed in Russia for 500,000 copies[28] Again, a factual event sparked his next novel, "The Action of the Tiger" his first attempt at a "faction" thriller was also internationally successful.

[29] This novel involved the US wartime liberty ship SS Richard Montgomery which in 1944 ran aground and was sunk in the Thames estuary with over 2000 tons of bombs and high explosives on board, and remains there to this day.

[30][31][32][33][34] After a long lapse due to pressure of his engineering career and now retired, a further novel A Waking of Rooks was published in 2011 as an ebook and is receiving excellent reviews.

His latest novel published in July 2023 is a crime thriller titled 'The Priest and the Whistleblower' and has a fast moving plot with possible drastic world consequences and introducing a tough no nonsense Newcastle based police detective sergeant named Jack Shaftoe.