The Man with the Getaway Face audiobook
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Review #1
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I’m working my way through the entire series of Parker exploits. These stand alone in Crime fiction as Parker is a real criminal. No redeeming qualities except a true professional who only works with those of the same make up. Believable while being slightly “larger than life”, you can see this guy in a mug shot and saying “Keep me from running into this guy”. Lee Marvin played the character in the film adaptation which was titled “Point Blank” ( his character name was Walker in that) and he was a wise choice as he was truly a badass who didn’t have to act to pull it off. Recommended to fans of the genre.
Review #2
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Good follow and 2nd story up to the original. If your a Parker fan, I suggest to get Stark’s original books and stay far away from Darwyn Cooke’s newer horrible comic book remake like “The Outfit”. Don’t be duped and lose out on the full Stark novel. If you get Darwyn Cooke’s version you’ll miss out on most of the story of “The Outfit”. Which is the 3RD book in the Parker series and NOT the 2ND book as Darwyn Cooke’s version says Book 2. That is dubious imo. What that means it is Cooke’s 2ND book. The second Parker Stark book is this one. The Man With The Getaway Face. The Outfit is the 3RD Parker novel which Darwyn Cooke’s comic book version can confuse readers that don’t know. FORGET THE DARWYN COOK VERSION AND STICK WITH PURCHASING THE ORIGINAL STARK BOOK OF ‘THE OUTFIT’ if you go to read the 3RD follow up after this one. All Cooke’s version is is a very lousy horrible cartoon rendering inside a hardcover book. Dubious and not good artist drawings either imo.
Review #3
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I read my first Stark book about 20 years ago, Backflash. I enjoyed it more than many. Through the years, in moments when I’ve considered my next read, “Parker” has always been there lurking on the fringes of my thoughts. In December I learned a little about Donald Westlake (the author’s real name) and I was more intrigued. So I started with book 1, “The Hunter.” That review is posted here. Suffice it to say these books are special. They are well written and plotted tightly with twists, surprises and gritty real characters. The feeling of the era jumps out and wraps around you and pulls you in. There’s no great literary prose or enigmatic point to be made they are simply stories-great stories!
Review #4
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The Man With the Getaway Face is the second novel in Richard Stark’s Parker series. This time out, Parker is fresh from plastic surgery to keep the Syndicate from finding him after all the trouble he caused them. Parker with a new face, a dwindling funds and a chance at a payoff from a sketchy armored car robbery. What follows is Parker’ s brutal efficiency at planning and executing robberies. Also involved is Parker dealing with a a former boxer trying to revenge the murder of the same doctor who performed the surgery to Parker’s face. So Parker is stuck trying to keep the boxer from interrupting his armored car job, find the person who killed the Doctor and prevent his new face from being reported to the Syndicate. I love Richard Stark’s (Donald Westlake) Parker. He is a no nonsense character who always does what is necessary and never deals from a position of weakness. My only gripe about this novel as it feels like it should have been part of a larger complete book. I know this is an ongoing series and leads right in to the next book The Outfit which leads right in to The Mourned, but it felt a little incomplete compared to The Hunter. I did really enjoy this book and I look forward to reading more of them. I recommend this series to crime noir fans and fiction fans.
Review #5
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This is the second title in a glorious series of pseudo noir crime novels set back in the 1960s. At the end of book one, Parker had successfully taken close to $50,000 from a New York mafia syndicate referred to those in the know as, “The Outfit”. Obviously one could not expect to live a quiet life unmolested by enemies of this reputation without taking precautions, so book two opens after a successful cosmetic operation giving our Mr Parker a new look. Quite literally.
Anyway his old friends (the few he has) take a few seconds of convincing of his identity and it is not long before he accepts a job which offers him an easy take of a cool $50,000. Nothing in life is ever what it appears and by the time he meets his new team members and hears the plan Parker decides that he does not like the look or sound of what is in store for everyone.
And so the game is on. Stark’s writing is as good if not better than book one. The book is littered with phrases that are quite poetic in quality but probably politically incorrect for me to quote here, so i wont. The plotting is excellent, the characters (both good and bad) jump out of the kindle screen and poke you in the eye so please read this title with your spectacles on. The reader is in for a great time and so i award it my mandatory four stars. Not quite a classic (by my terms) so i cant give it five. But an awesome read nonetheless.
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