The Score: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels Book 5)

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Ships from and sold by Amazon. Customers who bought this item also bought. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. A Parker Novel Parker Novels. The Man with the Getaway Face: Here's how restrictions apply. In a complex world [he] makes things simple. The master thief is back, along with Richard Stark. Old master that he is, Stark does all of them one better.

Richard Stark and Parker: Thick as Thieves

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Showing of 95 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Overall the quality of the stories is very high. They are tightly plotted with dialogue fitted to the voices of the different characters. The descriptions of places and objects are brief but clear and connected to the characters' perceptions. There are egregious editing errors in every book in the series, some with only a few, most noticeably the first four books in the series.

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The software just can't identify certain words and doesn't always fix hyphenated words back to whole words. Having the choice all over again, I would look for the paper backs and read those. One person found this helpful. Another Great Parker story. And perfect "novelette" size for one plane ride.

This is 6 and suggest reading in order. As other reviews have noted, Westlake has admitted regrets about the Jugger Parker appears to have gone soft. The Jugger is consistent with theme of Parker as a flawed human being and master criminal with many qualities. Parker is smart, clever, perceptive about people and human nature, amoral, and only violent when he needs to be.

Parker (Stark novels character)

Glad I helped inspire you to, er, probably spend more on books that you otherwise would have I know that the fun of collecting is the collecting and there is a certain sadness when you actually complete a collection, but boy does that line of books look absolutely, enviably gorgeous on your shelf. So much so that you might want to take some precautions. Obsessive book collectors whose books of choice are about heists might make some slightly anti-social connections about how to complete their own collection Ah, but the location of my collection is as secret as the location of Parker and Claire's New Jersey lakeside house.

Er, apart from the fact that everyone knows I live in Lewes But I am over that now; I want to visit Westlake's attic instead. Now given that the title of this one actually refers to a public lavatory, you would think it would not be in such high demand, but that's the problem, no doubt--probably weren't many copies to start with, and now the few that are still out there are being held hostage on the internet for princely sums.

All it takes is one collector desperate enough to bite, so knowing what they have, they jack the price way up. Demand for Westlake to bring back Parker resulted in the very well-received and appropriately titled Comeback in And seven more novels follwed, the series continuing right up until Westlake's death in Along with the Parker novels, Stark wrote four Alan Grofield books about Parker's sometime partner in crime.

These usually pick up just after Grofield and Parker have finished a job; they're a bit lighter, a bit more Westlake than the other Starks. Perhaps because Grofield doesn't see himself as a professional thief. He sees himself as an actor, who criminal exploits allow him to turn down roles he's not too fussy about.

The Parker series is often sited as one of the absolute best hard-boiled series ever written, unapologetically brutal and unflinching. It's also been the inspiration for several movies, although various directors have had some very different spins on his character, changing his name, his nationality, his race and even his gender on occasion. Rumour has it that when Westlake was asked why Parker was never called Parker in the movies, he replied that he didn't want them to use the name, unless they were going to make a series from the books. Under his real name, Westlake writes the relatively light-hearted Dortmunder series, about a brilliant, but hilariously unlucky master criminal.

Under the Tucker Coe penname, Westlake has written a series about guilt-ridden private eye, Mitch Tobin. Westlake's always been rather playful when it comes to his books.

In Jimmy The Kid , one of the Dortmunder books, his gang uses a Parker novel as a guideline for a caper; needless to say, it doesn't go quite as planned. The chapters alternate between the Dortmunder story and the Parker novel, entitled Child Heist. The Donald Westlake novel.

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And this isn't the first time Gores and Westlake have high-fived each other. Of course, these shared chapters are not exactly the same, but describe the same situations from different points of view thanks to Jiro Kimura of The Gumshoe Site for the heads up on this one. Talk about highly anticipated!

Betrayed by his dame and double-crossed by his partner, the ice-cold pro has only one thought in mind - revenge. First in a proposed series!

Cooke returns with his second adaptation. This time, Parker's on the outs with the mob. Cooke's first two adaptations of Richard Stark's Parker novels collected in one fancy-pants oversized, slipcased hardcover edition, with a whopping additional 65 pages of content, plus a brand-new story. The third of Darwyn Cooke's masterful adaptations of Richard Stark's Parker novels is simply put, another triumph of graphic storytelling, style and wit.

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