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Title: Man With the Getaway Face by Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake ISBN: 0-380-68635-X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: March, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great follow up
Comment: You don't need to read the predcessor of this book to enjoy it, but you might as well. This is book is great from start to finish. It is thoroughly enjoyable.
Rating: 4
Summary: No-Nonsense Criminal
Comment: Most people who have just had their face reconstructed would be inclined to go through a period of mourning as they lament the loss of their familiar appearance. Not so with Parker. Apart from a quick glance in the mirror to make sure he looked different, he is completely unaffected.
This reaction probably best sums up this mysterious and dark character. He always prefers to take the most prudent action rather than be ruled by his emotions, giving him a cold, calculating persona. But these same qualities also make him very efficient and strangely likable.
After receiving his new appearance, Parker goes straight back to work in planning an armoured truck heist. He has some misgivings about the job because it involves someone he has never worked with before, but this is just another contingency for him to plan around. Indeed, it appears that Parker has been built with no reverse gear installed. Once a course of action has been planned, it's full steam ahead and as obstacles rise up, as they inevitably do in this caper, he deals with them head on, scarcely breaking stride.
This is the second Parker book, following his appearance in The Hunter and is a thoroughly enjoyable story. The no-nonsense attitude of Parker, whether it's going ahead with a plan or casually shooting someone in the ankle makes for very entertaining, if a little cold-blooded, reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Making a buck in the early '60s
Comment: Donald Westlake writes of Dortmunder, a bumbling petty criminal it's really hard to like. Then as Richard Stark he gives us Parker, a much more competent crook who will kill when he has to, and surprisingly or not, a much more likeable character.
It was written in 1963 when the mob was "The Outfit", Exxon was still Esso and you took the ferry to Brooklyn, not the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. Parker gets a new face from Dr. Adler, a plastic surgeon in Nebraska who was a pre 50s Commie, then goes back to New Jersey for an armored car heist. Skim and Elma, Skim's overbearing waitress girlfriend, set up the heist, develop an unworkable plan that Parker fixes and set up a doublecross that Parker anticipates. All would be fine except Dr. Adler has been killed, and a guy named Stubbs is sent to find the killer.
The interaction between Parker and Stubbs and their search for a swindler named Wallenbaugh, now Wells, take up the rest of the story. Parker's reasons for getting to Wells and going back to Nebraska to square things come from logic only his mind could concoct, but it makes for a fun adventure.
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Title: Score, The by Richard Stark ISBN: 0446677736 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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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: The Jugger by Richard Stark ISBN: 0446677744 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 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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