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S'està carregant… Comeback: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels) (1997 original; edició 2011)de Richard Stark, Lawrence Block (Pròleg)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Parker Returns After 23 Years Review of the Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook edition (April, 2013) of the Warner Books / Mysterious Press hardcover (1997) Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of the prolific crime author Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008), who wrote over 100 books. The Stark pseudonym was used primarily for the Parker novels, an antihero criminal who is usually betrayed or ensnared in some manner and who spends each book getting revenge or escaping the circumstances. Comeback finds Parker and a heist crew knocking over the box office receipts (all cash) from a shady evangelist's rally. Their inside man wants his share in order to do the actual good deeds which the scam evangelist is not doing. As almost always, one of the heisters gets greedy and soon the usual disarray follows with Parker trying to pick up the pieces. Comeback was the return of Westlake/Stark's antihero Parker character after a 23 year hiatus following the 16th book in the series Butcher's Moon (1974). There isn't any mention of Parker aging in the meantime so it is almost as if there was no hiatus at all. Narrator Keith Szarabjka does an excellent job in all voices in this audiobook edition. I had never previously read the Stark/Parker novels but became curious when they came up in my recent reading of The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives (Sept. 2020) by Nancy Pearl & Jeff Schwager. Here is a (perhaps surprising) excerpt from their discussion with autho Amor Towles: Nancy: Do you read Lee Child? The 24 Parker books are almost all available for free on Audible Plus, except for #21 & #22 which aren't available at all. Trivia and Links There is a brief plot summary of Comeback and of all the Parker books and adaptations at The Violent World of Parker website. Unlike many of the 2010-2013 Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook editions which share the same cover art as the University of Chicago Press 2009-2011 reprints, this audiobook DOES include the Foreword by author Lawrence Block. After a 23-year hiatus, author Richard Stark continued his Parker series without missing a beat. Approached by George Liss, a man he has worked with previously, Stark agrees to steal the $400,000 cash proceeds of an evangelist preacher's show. However, the inside man, who is angry that the preacher uses the money for a lavish lifestyle and not to help the needy, tells one person too many. Double cross, triple cross, the preacher's security man, and a vindictive police detective investigating the crime create quite a story. Parker's post-heist hideout is classic. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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The thief Parker teams up with some crooks to steal half a million dollars from a TV evangelist. But one cannot keep his mouth shut and Parker is on the run, pursued by people on both sides of the law. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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Chapters 10 and 11 are awesome! Parker’s cool confidence is what I love about these books! And then he takes out 5 guys in 40 seconds - unarmed! (well, except for a metal drawer!) Loved it! I also enjoyed the big showdown between Parker and Liss. Man, why in the heck would you ever even try to double-cross Parker? Why, why, why? ( )