Parker Novels: The Score Lib/E (Series #5) (CD-Audio)

from dh-writer

Parker is back. This time with a crowd to help him with stealing everything in Copper Canyon. Everything goes as planned, until it doesn't. A fast paced thriller by Richard Stark. Entertaining and light. A good beach read or a book for after a hard week.

from slarsoncollins

Good stuff. The Score follows Parker, a career criminal, on yet another job. Parker ignores his gut instincts about the man setting up the job and agrees to come along. All is going smoothly when Parkers concerns come to fruition and all hell breaks loose. Lots of action, good characters and this...

from joeldinda

Not my cup of tea, but certainly readable. Hard-boiled. 3 1/2 stars for this. ==================== My copy is a free University of Chicago Press ebook; they're hoping I'll buy the rest of Stark's Parker set. As loss leaders go, though, this is a disaster. A bad scan; about the quality of your typ...

from 3j0hn

A tense, tightly plotted hard boiled heist book. Stark makes great use of shifting POVs at the height of the action get you into the heads of the whole cast of rogues. I am starting to see how he wrote 24 of these.

from datrappert

Enjoyable but implausible heist caper by Donald Westlake writing under his Richard Stark pseudonym. A gang of a dozen or so criminals plans and carries out an overnight raid on an entire small town in North Dakota--with only one road out! Westlake seems more concerned with getting the whole thing...