Christopher O'Riley just finished reading the next in Richard Stark’s Parker series, Backflash, in which a beautifully planned casino ship heist goes terribly wrong, as always, leaving Parker with dire options. one of the better action-heavy books of the series. i’ll be sorry when i get through this binge. brilliant
just finished reading Richard Stark’s Comeback, the 17th in his Parker series; bittersweet, as i’m now reluctantly entering the homestretch of the novels. this one was, appropriate to the title, written after a 23-year absence from the work of this, the darkest of Donald E. Westlake’s nom de plumes. i’ll be very sorry to see …
just finished reading the last of three Alan Grofield vehicles by the Donald E. Westlake nom de plume, Richard Stark: The Blackbird, Grofield as a reluctant spy (they’d otherwise bust him for the armored car heist-gone wrong he’d just partnered on with Parker, whose POV of the aftermath features in Stark’s Slayground) who knows some …
finished reading on the plane Grofield novel #2 by Richard Stark The Dame. #1 was an escape, #2 is a whodunit, #3 (i’m reading now, The Blackbird) is a hapless spy novel with Grofield at its center, his brief liaison with his Banana Republic friend and Third World player figuring prominently in #3. Westlake rules