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Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a job leaves too small a take for George Uhl, who begins to pick off his fellow hoisters, one by one. The first mistake? That he doesn’t begin things by putting a bullet in Parker. That means he won’t get the chance to make a second. One of the darkest novels in the series, this caper proves the adage that no one crosses Parker and lives
“Whatever Stark writes, I read. He’s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.”—Elmore Leonard
“The non-hero: the ruthless, unrepentant, single-minded operator in a humorless and amoral world. . . . No one depicts this scene with greater clarity than Richard Stark.”—The New York Times
- Sales Rank: #765119 in Books
- Published on: 2010-05-15
- Released on: 2010-05-15
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .50" w x 5.25" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 168 pages
Review
“Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.”
(Stephen King Entertainment Weekly)
“Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark’s noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world [he] makes things simple.”
(William Grimes New York Times)
“Whatever Stark writes, I read. He’s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.”
(Elmore Leonard)
“Richard Stark’s Parker novels . . . are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time.”
(John Banville Bookforum)
“Parker is a true treasure. . . . The master thief is back, along with Richard Stark.”
(Marilyn Stasio New York Times)
“Westlake knows precisely how to grab a reader, draw him or her into the story, and then slowly tighten his grip until escape is impossible.”
(Washington Post)
“Elmore Leonard wouldn’t write what he does if Stark hadn’t been there before. And Quentin Tarantino wouldn’t write what he does without Leonard. . . . Old master that he is, Stark does all of them one better.”
(Los Angeles Times)
“Donald Westlake’s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you’ve been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust—these are the books you’ll want on that desert island.”
(Lawrence Block)
"Parker is a brilliant invention. . . . What chiefly distinguishes Westlake, under whatever name, is his passion for process and mechanics. . . . Parker appears to have eliminated everything from his program but machine logic, but this is merely protective coloration. He is a romantic vestige, a free-market anarchist whose independent status is becoming a thing of the past."
(Luc Sante New York Times Book Review)
"I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written."
(Terry Teachout Commentary)
"If you're a fan of noir novels and haven't yet read Richard Stark, you may want to give these books a try. Who knows? Parker may just be the son of a bitch you've been searching for."
(John McNally Virginia Quarterly Review)
"The University of Chicago Press has recently undertaken a campaign to get Parker back in print in affordable and handsome editions, and I dove in. And now I get it."
(Josef Braun Vue Weekly)
"Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments."
(Terry Teachout Weekly Standard)
“The UC Press mission, to reprint the 1960s Parker novels of Richard Stark (the late Donald Westlake), is wholly admirable. The books have been out of print for decades, and the fast-paced, hard-boiled thrillers featuring the thief Parker are brilliant.”
(H. J. Kirchoff Globe and Mail)
About the Author
Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008), a prolific author of noir crime fiction. In 1993 the Mystery Writers of America bestowed the society’s highest honor on Westlake, naming him a Grand Master.
Most helpful customer reviews
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
A great Parker score
By D. Rahmel
The robbery of an armored truck goes fine, but the loot is less than expected. One of the robbers decides that he wants the whole pot and tries to kill his partners -- but Parker gets away. Since he had never worked with the heister before, Parker has to chase down many loose ends to locate his money and gain his revenge.
Parker is not at his most ruthless in this one. In fact, he even demonstrates some compassion in one excellent, interesting scene. This Parker story really kept me going. It's brief and the pages speed by. There is more sex in the story than usual, but it's tasteful and very well written. Be sure to add this one to your Parker collection.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
The lesson of the master
By Christopher (o.d.c.)
Just because you're having a bad day doesn't mean things can't get worse. This is how Stark ends chapter three:
(The heist is successful, but the take is only $33,000, split four ways)
“You know what kind of day this is?” Weiss said. “I'll tell you what kind of day this is. The kind of day this is, we'll come down off this hill a couple days from now, the government will have devalued the dollar. How much is singles and fives?”
“Maybe a thousand,” Parker said.
“Another two hundred fifty dollars bye-bye,” Weiss said, and Uhl shot him in the head.
... which really gets the ball rolling. Every Parker novel can be read once as a fast-paced pulp thriller. Read a second time, they reveal Stark as a classicist: teaching in a restrained and clear-eyed way the virtues of restraint and clear-sightedness:
There was a long, taut second when it could go either way—she could fall to the floor or go on making the coffee—and then she sighed, a long, shuddering sound, and shifted her weight and reached for the coffeepot.
Still with her back to him, hands busy making the coffee, she said, “That wouldn't be why you're here. Not just to tell me about it. You aren't the type, Parker. You never were, you never will be.”
“That's right,” Parker said.
“You're strictly business,” she said.
“I didn't kill him,” Parker said. “Don't take it out on me.”
She stopped what she was doing and just stood there for a minute. Then, in a muffled voice, she said, “Excuse me,” and hurried from the room, keeping her face turned away from him.
The form Stark/Westlake invented for Parker novels- three parts from Parker's point-of-view, and a middle section of five or six other points-of-view, does not hinder the story at all, and in fact, speeds it along. Stark also creates several females here, from Weiss's widow to Barri the ballerina, none of them pulp cliches, or male fantasies.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Parker Gets Bitter Toward Those Who Try and Kill Him and Steal or Want to His Money
By James N Simpson
Twelfth novel in Donald E Westlake's (a.k.a. Richard Stark) sensational Parker series, The Sour Lemon Score is pure vengeance novel. Parker's part of a four man criminal gang who rob a crate of money being carried from a bank's vault to an armoured car outside. Heist goes smoothly, even with a panicking member. Unfortunately that panicking member of the group, George Uhl, brought along his own plans to murder the other three at the isolated farmhouse where they were to lay low until the heat died down, and take all the cash for himself. Of course as the main character of this series Parker narrowly escapes with his life, but he's in for a long hungry wait and walk until he can escape the area and likelihood of arrest. This of course contributes to the anger and desire for revenge on Uhl, and to get his money back. Problem for Parker though is that since Uhl was pretty much a rookie, and brought in by a dead member of the group, it's not going to be easy to track him down, so Parker's going to have to do a lot of legwork, and make a few people unhappy along the way.
The Sour Lemon Score has a lot of action, and lot of inside the head reasoning and thought patterns of Parker and also uses a lot of nice nostalgia references to really illustrate the time it is set in (it was originally published 1969). Such as a radio voice saying the old "this just in" line before reporting on the robbery. A gun dealer asking Parker if he'd like string put around the boxes containing guns he'd bought (like we're asked if you'd like a bag today). During the initial robbery one of the criminals yelling 'stick em up" and the victims not even laughing one bit at the line. Parker makes a few stupid mistakes that maybe he wouldn't make in other books in this series, a lot coming from him being rather impatient at times such as not wanting to wait a few hours for a go between to return to his store. You do also wonder why he wasn't just shot and killed in one scene as later in the book that character admits he has no qualms with murder and the alternative is a lot less convenient than simple murder, plus they'd know Parker will just come back for revenge. Without these things the enjoyable plot wouldn't work though.
Next novel in the series is Deadly Edge.
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