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New Richard Stark novel: Dirty Money
By M&C News Apr 20, 2008, 10:27 GMT
"[One] of the greatest writers of the twentieth century...Richard Stark, real name Donald Westlake...His Parker books form a genre all their own." --John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The SeaMaster criminal Parker takes another turn for the worse as he tries to recover loot from a heist gone terribly wrong. In Nobody Runs Forever, Parker and two cohorts stole the assets of a bank in ...more
This is Stark’s 26th novel, one where readers will see his sociopath character once again.
This novel marks the end of a trilogy, and according to a recent AP review, “Dirty Money unfolds with an abundance of double-crosses and several explosions of violence. The story is written in the same spare, vivid prose expected of every Stark novel. And Parker is as remorseless as ever, never taking pleasure in pulling the trigger but never hesitating when "business" requires it.”
Just to give a bit of what Publishers Weekly thought, “The pragmatic, quick-thinking Parker must find a way to retrieve the stashed haul he and his confederates left in Massachusetts without getting caught by the law or nibbled to death by other crooks. Stark handles the criminal aspects of his tale with his usual panache, but some fans will find Parker's trademark sharp edge less in evidence this outing.”
Grand Central is the publisher, and if this is your thing, visit the AP review. The novel finishes at 288 pages.
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