The Seventh audiobook
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Review #1
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I came to the Parker series late, never even having heard of the series until the Darwin Cooke (RIP) graphic novel adaptations started to come out. After devouring those in a gulp, I was curious about more of them. Now that the good Mr. Cooke has passed beyond, I decided to read the actual source itself – GASP!, I know- the unthinkable. Luckily, the University of Chicago Press has recently – more or less – republished all twenty four volumes of this series.
The Seventh, also the seventh novel of a series, follows the aftermath of a perfect score, where Parker and six others rob the proceeds from a college football game. Only afterwards is Parker robbed and the woman he was shacked up with is killed. This begins Parker’s savage hunt to regain his seventh of the split and find out who was behind it all. One of his own crew? Or a random stranger.
This is a pretty straightforward slam-bang novel. The plot is the center of the story, and the idea of character development is laughable – except in the sense when they go from alive to dead. You do get a sense of each member of the crew, but very briefly. Parker is still the same stone-wall brutal killer as in all the other novels. There are no real twists or turns, the plot has revelations, but not gimmicky ones. If you’re looking for a quick crime novel, then take a gander at the Seventh.
Review #2
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The best way to describe Parker would be to imagine “Don Draper” from the AMC cable show, “Mad Men,” as a calculating career criminal who does one or two “heist jobs” a year and then spends the remainder of his time living in luxury hotels in Miami. The guy is a thug who thinks quick on his feet and equally fast with a gun or his fists. He is ruthless, sexy and was probably the fantasy du jour for a repressed family man coming out of the late 1950’s and into the early 60’s.
This novel is about an ambitious heist which involved seven men stealing all the ticket proceeds from a stadium college football game. However, the loot goes missing and these seven men want their share and some are suspicious of one another.. The “take” is a laughable $150,000; (keep in mind that the average annual household income at the time of the writing was only $6,000),
At the time of the writing the novel was probably considered quite noir but in present day it is just a fun romp through early 60’s crime fantasies. The book features fetishized woman, guns, logistics, and what a repressed male of the day thought an alpha-male should be: a sexy thug in an expensive suit and a cigarette dangling from his mouth.
Review #3
Audiobook The Seventh by Richard Stark
“It was as involuted and twisted as a Chinese puzzle. The police were looking for the Canaday killer. A group of professional bandits was also looking for the Canaday killer. And the police, to round it off, were looking for the professional bandits. If the Canaday killer were looking for either the police or the bandits, then everything would be tied in the ultimate knot. Well, they all had to start bumping into each other pretty soon. Too many people were milling around in the same restricted area; sooner or later they had to start making contact.”
Reading a Parker novel is a pleasure, because it is always an exciting, well-told story, with unexpected twists and developments. Re-reading a Parker novel is an even greater pleasure, because one begins to appreciate the artistry with which Stark/Westlake has contrived his fast ones.
The Seventh adheres to the quartet form- parts one, two, and four are told from Parker’s point of view, with other points of view restricted to part three. There are six additional heisters, plus the nameless, dreadful ‘amateur’ who has stolen their haul, plus the sharp knife William Doherty, the cop whose home Parker has visited (Stark seems sometimes to think of Parker as not just an anti-hero, but specifically as anti-detective). Which makes for a breakneck part three.
Luc Sante’s introduction to the University of Chicago edition is a cut above some of the other introductions (none of which are bad). Speaking of his first encounter:
“I was stunned by the book, by its power and economy and the fact that it blithely dispensed with moral judgment, and of course I wanted more. Not only did I want more Parker and more Stark, I also imagined that I had stumbled upon a particularly brilliant specimen of a thriving genre. But I was wrong. There is no such genre.”
Review #4
Audio The Seventh narrated by John Chancer
The Seventh begins with Parker in trouble. The heist he had planned had been successful and he was waiting a few days to divide the loot among the seven men who had formed the gang. Each man was to get an even share, hence the seventh. Trouble was Parker lost the money.
Parker had been “holed up” with a woman he had met before the robbery. She was likable, so he decided to live with her a few days until the heat simmered a bit after the job. On the third day he left for ten minutes to pick up some beer and cigarettes. When he came back she was dead and the money was gone.
The Seventh is mostly a post robbery story. It is Parker’s hunt for who took the money and who killed the girl. Was it a member of the gang? Was it an outsider who had been following the gang’s action. Was it a former acquaintance of the girl? Somehow Parker had to know and would not rest until he made it “right”.
This is a story of mystery and suspense. We know the mission from the first, but the search leads in a few different directions and the story is full of plot twists. This is one of the better novels about the “antihero” Parker. I recommend it.
Review #5
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Parker books read so smoothly that you feel like you are reading novellas because you fly through them so quickly. Parker is a character who could be the original, classic archetype of the anti-hero Although his life and actions can be cruel and violent you are always rooting for him to come out on top.
The story begins with Parker holing up and letting the heat die down after a clean haul at a college football game. He steps out of the room to buy a pack of smokes but when he returns he finds his girlfriend brutally murdered, pinned to the bedboard with a sword from the wall. More importantly, the undivided haul from the job is missing and two cops are knocking on the front door. If he is able to get out of this mess he is still going to have to deal with his six partners who are cooling their heels around town waiting for the opportunity to collect their cut of the now missing money. Everything that follows is classic Parker.
This is the seventh in the series of Parker books and one of the most notable things about the last few is the introduction of characters on the right side of the law who are not stupid, dirty or so easily duped. In fact these lawmen can put 2 and 2 together and often force Parker’s moves and place him in difficult positions. Every Parker book up to this point has included amazing characters from the underworld which are described so perfectly that you can actually see them in your head. This book and the previous book in the series, “The Jugger” introduced lawmen who could match Parker in smarts making the novels much more cat and mouse with the cat and the mouse frequently switching places. Each Parker book builds on the previous ones, so you can be sure you will be seeing these characters hunt Parker in future books.
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