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Review #1
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The Score was one of my favorite Parker novels as I read the series for the first time. On my first journey through the series I read what the local library had. Some of the early and later books, and not that many of them. Then I started to purchase the novels and really enjoyed this one because of the audacity of attempting to rob the all the major business in a small town. The planning and coordination to pull the heist off drew me into the book. Of course, being a Parker novel, something goes wrong but the crew still does rather well. I am now reading the series in order and I still think the story is solid and still one of my favorites.
Review #2
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As other reviewers have noted, this is like watching a classic B&W movie filmed in the 1960s with no mobile phones, Internet, high-tech weapons or video cameras anywhere.
About Parker: Parker lives in the moment like any good sales person. Not the past. Not the future. He respects only dependable people he has worked with in the past. Bozzo’s and other undependable types get written off or killed. Mess with drugs, alcohol, or women during a job means you are a Bozzo and are undependable. Parker also plans financially. He pays income taxes to establish legitimacy, stashes cash everywhere like a squirrel, and only “works” enough to replenish his cash. The smart criminal.
About the Story, The Score, 5th in the Series: Parker considers a new job mainly out of boredom…and a much larger take even after expenses and more mouths to feed. The caper is to rob an entire town in North Dakota. Example of expenses: 3 highly illegal Thompson submachine guns bought for $350 from usual supplier on the black market. [Imagine that cost today, so make adjustments when you read the story today.] The job doesn’t feel right to Parker: too many people, too many moving parts, and some amateur partners whom he doesn’t know. If you read the Parker series, you know that these doubts are enough to kill Parker’s interest.
Still, with lot of money at stake and agreement that Parker runs the show, Parker takes on the caper.
Planning involves the usual Parker preparations. No detail is too small to check out. Even when everyone else is satisfied, Parker isn’t. He’s cautious. Insists that details are checked out.
Death is nothing to celebrate for Parker. But it is not to be avoided either if necessary to eliminate any loose ends. Parker goes about killing methodically–not rushed and never emotionally involved. Age or gender makes no difference.
Despite the best laid plans, The Score has unforeseen double-crossings and hidden agendas. These twists and turns make the Westlake Parker-series a delightful read and mystery story.
Review #3
Audiobook The Score by Richard Stark
The Score is Parker’s most ambitious heist yet. The idea was presented by a man who knew about a town in North Dakota that he thought ideal for a big score. The town, Copper Canyon, is accessible by only one highway, has an enforced nighttime curfew, and has several easy targets for robbery: a mine payroll, two banks and several stores with large daily receipts.
Parker’s first reaction was to pass on this job as it would require a large crew, and the single highway could be a trap that prohibits escape. In addition the person with the idea seems to be a novice. After careful consideration, Parker’s team wants the job and he reluctantly agrees.
Essentially, Parker has to manage a caper that requires control of an entire town. He must determine how to neutralize the small police force and fire department, overcome the mine’s security, prevent anyone in the town from calling for help, and find an escape plan to avoid arrest. Parker conceives a plan to meet all requirements with only a twelve men crew.
The Score is a fast paced, action filled crime novel. Observing these experts plan and execute a complex maneuver to temporarily control and loot an entire town is impressive. The plan is believable and exciting. The execution is almost flawless. The only trouble will probably haunt Parker for years. I recommend this novel.
Review #4
Audio The Score narrated by John Chancer
You can steal in this country, you can rape and murder, you can bribe public officials, you can pollute the morals of the young, you can burn your place of business down for the insurance money, you can do almost anything you want, and if you act with just a little caution and common sense you will never even be indicted. But if you don’t pay your income tax, you will go to jail.
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Page 73. First published 1964.
Richard Stark/Donald Westlake has written a whole series of crime procedurals around Parker, the man without a first name. Not police procedurals, but robbery procedurals, written from the perspective of the perpetrator. This is all highly immoral and very entertaining.
In the Score, volume 5 of the series, Parker robs a whole little mining town in North Dakota. The job isn’t what he normally does. It is larger and more complex and involves more people. What you get with this novel is a guideline for project team organization. If you are into industrial project management, you can learn something here, besides the entertainment.
On the other hand, while the job is more complex, the novel is fairly straightforward and uncomplex, hence I would rate it a bit lower than some of the others in the series.
Review #5
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I am working my way through all the Parker books and after seven of them, I still rate this one as my favorite. The heist is bold and the action is non-stop. One of my favorite aspects of the Parker stories are the supporting characters and this particular one is absolutely crammed with colorful people, many of whom play a significant part in the Parker universe as the series progresses. I would also recommend Darwyn Cooke’s absolutely perfect graphic novel adaptation of this novel, Parker: The Score. If you like action, powerful anti-heroes and endless twists and turns, then I recommend “The Score.”
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