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Title: Score, The by Richard Stark ISBN: 0-446-67773-6 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good Stark, but not his best.
Comment: A good book, to be sure, but not one of Stark's best. Parker is hired to plan a robbery focusing on an entire town. The heist goes off without a hitch, but unforseen circumstances come into play, and Parker has to fix the problem his own way. About equal with Backflash and Firebreak.
Rating: 5
Summary: Parker's Ultimate Caper
Comment: Richard Stark ( Donald E Westake) gives us the ultimate in heists with this terrific early Parker novel. When Parker hears of a plan to rob an entire town, he's leery of the inside man and the number of thieves needed to pull off the caper. Nevertheless he is brought into the scheme and together with 11 other fellow thieves, they pull off the dream caper until the double cross inevitable in a Parker novel. In the meantime, the inside man acts on the plan that he formed for vengeance. Grofield (Stark's actor/thief) falls for a hostage and a teen leaving a night of passion at his girlfriend's after curfew also throw monkey wrenches into the story. When the team makes it to their hideout after several deaths and an inferno, it further unravels as the group waits out the police search. This is Stark at his finest. Granted it's a little dated and the plan wouldn't work today. The townfolk have to place out-of-town calls through operators at a central switchboard and the switchboard operators are covered by the team. Imagine the problems in today's cellular world. Nevertheless, this pulls together several of Parker's cronies from previous capers and introduces new ones. We get the usual scenes of plan, payoff,doublecross and Parker's efforts to escape the consequences of the doublecross. These are set pieces in any Parker novel and Stark works them like a pro. If you're just discovering Parker through his new capers, this is a must have from the original series.
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Title: Man With the Getaway Face by Richard Stark ISBN: 0446674664 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Jugger by Richard Stark ISBN: 0446677744 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Comeback by Richard Stark ISBN: 0446674656 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Backflash by Richard Stark ISBN: 0446675261 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Firebreak by Richard Stark ISBN: 0446678244 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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