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Review #1
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This is a standard review for the University of Chicago published Parker series by Richard Stark. Overall the quality of the stories is very high. They are tightly plotted with dialogue fitted to the voices of the different characters. The descriptions of places and objects are brief but clear and connected to the characters’ perceptions.
Now the negatives: These stories average about $9.99, and I expect that some editing must have been done to warrant so high a price for what are rather short novels. There are egregious editing errors in every book in the series, some with only a few, most noticeably the first four books in the series. The rest have over a dozen spelling and grammar errors that were no doubt due to the OCR scanning process on the original books/manuscripts. The software just can’t identify certain words and doesn’t always fix hyphenated words back to whole words. Having the choice all over again, I would look for the paper backs and read those. The books just aren’t worth the $9.99 average price.
Review #2
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Parker said, “So you want me to take his money away.”
“Right. I want you to pluck him like a chicken, scrape him clean. Don’t just rob the place, burn it to the ground, rip it right off that God damn island and throw it in the sea. Gut it, like Couffignal. Or don’t you know that one either?”
Parker didn’t. He said, “What’s in it for me?”
I read and enjoyed this book about a year ago. Re-reading it for this review, I found I enjoyed it even more.
“The handle” is thieves’ slang for the loot, the take, the kitty; but Westlake/Stark is so clever, that he makes a key scene depend upon Parker seeing, and going for, a literal handle.
“Parker walked along the road toward the two men, and then he turned around and walked back toward the jeep. He passed the jeep and walked another twenty yards, and then turned around and did it all over again. On the second circuit he saw it, peeking up over the top of the wall, curved, plastic, black, alien. The handle. He let his lips spread in a smile. He started toward the handle.”
Every Parker novel adheres strictly to a four-part form- parts one, two, and four from Parker’s point-of-view, and part three from other points of view- in this case, Parker’s partner Alan Grofield (who will have his own adventure in The Damsel: An Alan Grofield Novel ), and Wolfgang Baron, the crafty overseer of the offshore casino. “The gutting of Cockaigne,” as one might expect, does not come off quite as planned.
Review #3
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I am working my way through the Parker books in the order they were written and my favorite book so far is “The Score.” This one is my second favorite. The story brings a bunch of elements from earlier Parker books into play. One of the great things about the Parker series is how each story builds on the previous one, so it is pretty cool to see things like the Outfit and Grofield make appearances. The Feds also make an early play and put the squeeze on Parker, whose invisibility to them has slowly been destroyed over the last few books, especially in “The Jugger.”
The caper is incredible and the stakes are high as Parker sets out to take down an isolated island casino. This Parker outing has the usual breakneck pacing Parker fans are used to. It is not unusual to read reviews which claim these books are too short, This was the first book where I would agree with that. So much goes on and things happen so fast that characters and motivations are introduced then pushed aside or left unresolved because the action moves forward relentlessly. This is OK with Parker books because you know things will come back to haunt Parker and his cohorts in future novels.
Review #4
Audio The Handle narrated by John Chancer
This was my first Parker novel and it was a good introduction. You probably already know about Parker and his ruthlessness. Author Stark (Donald E. Westlake) genuinely came up with an original character–a true criminal mind, but one that has its own moral code regarding right and wrong. If you haven’t read a Parker novel, I can recommend you start here. Just jump into the story and be surprised at how ruthless Stark’s characters truly are.
Review #5
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Richard Stark’s anti-hero,Parker, has shown in previous stories that business is business and personal feelings don’t have any place in his line of work. This is particularly true in the case of ‘The Handle’ when Parker works not only for himself but for two of his most surprising partners to date, the ‘Feds’ and the ‘Outfit’. A criminal called Baron has set up a Las Vegas style operation on a heavily defended island in the Gulf of Mexico where the United States has no authority. The ‘Feds’ want Parker to get Baron onto the U.S. mainland where they can arrest him, and the ‘Outfit’ want Parker to shut down Baron’s very profitable gambling den which is making a lot of money at their expense. As usual, the question is not whether Parker will survive or not, but whether the difficulties thrown in his path are worth all his efforts. An old ally from a previous story is killed off and another barely survives but the usual trail of bodies ensure that the plot never falters and the excitement is maintained right to the very end. This is another terrific book from Richard Stark and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys superior detective stories.
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