Christopher O'Riley just finished reading Dirty Money by Richard Stark, thus completing my traversal of his Complete Works, and incidentally, this last being also the final work of the great Donald E. Westlake. the last three in the Parker series represent the Late Sonatas of the Stark ouevre, and i consider them the ne plus ultra of …
just finished reading on the plane, the latest in Richard Stark’s Parker series, Ask The Parrot. looks like the last three in the series are more integrally connected, this one starting out with Parker trying to escape from a botched armored car job, and the last, Dirty Money, also closely related. i’m going to be …
just finished another novel by Richard Stark, late in his Parker series, Nobody Runs Forever. it might be that Westlake just got better and better with age, but this one is my favorite of the series, especially for its tried-and-true practice of spreading around the narrative duties starting in 2nd Act has with this caper …
just finished reading another of the Parker novels by Richard Stark, Breakout. Parker gets pinched for the first time in the series, and it’s all about getting out. a real nail-biter, or maybe it was just the flight i was on. really great. i’m down to the last three, and i’ll have read all of …
just finished reading another in Richard Stark’s series centered on the hardman, Parker, Flashfire. this one BEGINS with a doublecross, moves through a hit on Parker (closest brush with death of the series, so far), and culminates in the biggest jewelry heist ever. maybe my favorite.