Ok. Not as good as some of the others, but I still enjoy reading Parker.Parker is in the woods fleeing after a robbery. A local guy Tom sees Parker and realizes he’s one of the robbers. Tom wants Parker to help him rob a racetrack. Tom introduces Parker to other locals telling them Parker is ...
Some mystery authors write police procedurals. Most of Donald Westlake’s books seem like criminal procedurals. In the course of reading a Westlake novel (or in this case, one of his Richard Stark novels), I’ve discovered so many variables that I never considered about pulling a criminal caper. Of...
This review originally appeared on my blog: Shared Universe Reviews The Mourner is the second novel from the Parker series by Richard Stark that I’ve read and I enjoyed it more than Slayground. Chronologically, it’s the fourth book in the Parker series, following The Outfit and preceding The Sco...
this one starts just after the heist: parker's stashed the boodle in his closet until the heat cools down and then he'll distribute it evenly amongst his six partners. day three in hiding, parker heads out for coffee, and upon his return, discovers that someone has plunged a sword through his nak...
anyone out there like magic? well, i do. and i'm gonna do a magic trick for your pleasure. watch how i turn david's examples of why stark is a bad writer (from his review of the score) into proof that stark is, in fact, a very good writer. here's davey-boy: Richard Stark—at least in The Score—is ...
my third post-hiatus parker book. and it's good. a tightly plotted story involving three breakouts:1. parker assembles a string in prison to break the hell out before they're transferred to high-security. 2. parker and crew have gotta break out of an armory once their entry/exit tunnel has colla...
This is the second Parker novel that I have read. The first was “The Man with the Getaway Face” (the second in the series) and now I have read on of the last (written in 2001). Apparently a lot has gone on in Mr. Parker’s life since that prior book.As I began reading this one I thought that the...
Drip…Drip…Drip…Drip…Drip...Drip……that is the sound of icy cold, 80 proof, liquid badasseliciousness seeping from every pore of Richard Stark’s mantastic anti-hero, Parker. Over the past several seasons, thanks in large part to Kemper and Dan), I have become a big fan of crime fiction. During my ...
Well, let's see here. There's been a lot of Richard Stark hoopla around our little corner of Goodreads lately, and I am proud to offer this review as minor corrective to the unbridled enthusiasms unleashed herein. Despite whatever I may say in the course of this review that might lead you to beli...
Richard Stark doesn't give much a description of what Parker looks like. He's a big guy with gnarled tree trunks for hands. This description is given in just about all of the early novels. It's probably safe to think of Parker as looking sort of like a Lee Marvin type, and since he has probabl...
First published in 1974, this is the sixteenth book in Richard Stark's acclaimed series featuring Parker, the amoral antihero criminal mastermind. While the book can be read as a stand-alone, it is really the capstone of the series to that point and the last Parker novel that would appear until C...
If Deadly Edge had a subtitle, The Return of Claire might be apt. After her virtual disappearance in the preceding novel, über-thief Parker’s girlfriend resurfaces in a big way with a steel-reinforced backbone even Parker can’t bend.Two wild and crazy guys take on Parker and his cohorts from a n...
“So Mr. Parker, how can our employment agency help you?”“Things haven’t been going well with my old job, and I’m thinking about a career change.”“Let’s take a look at your resume… It says here that you’ve been a professional thief most of your adult life. You’ve got some experience and skill wit...