Comeback - Softcover

Stark, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446674656 ISBN 13: 9780446674652

Publisher: Warner Books, 1998

Synopsis

In a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Master thief Parker, Liss, and Mackey pull off a million-dollar robbery of a Christian evangelical crusade, only to be double-crossed by their angelic inside man. Reprint.

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Review

Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.
--Stephen King "Entertainment Weekly ""

Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark s noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world [he] makes things simple.
--William Grimes "New York Times ""

Whatever Stark writes, I read. He s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.
--Elmore Leonard"

Richard Stark s Parker novels . . . are among the most poised and polished fictions of their time and, in fact, of any time.
--John Banville "Bookforum ""

Parker is a true treasure. . . . The master thief is back, along with Richard Stark.
--Marilyn Stasio "New York Times Book Review ""

Donald Westlake s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you ve been telling yourself about "War and Peace" and Proust these are the books you ll want on that desert island.
--Lawrence Block"

Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.
--Anthony Boucher "New York Times Book Review ""

The UC Press mission, to reprint the 1960s Parker novels of Richard Stark (the late Donald Westlake), is wholly admirable. The books have been out of print for decades, and the fast-paced, hard-boiled thrillers featuring the thief Parker are brilliant.
--H. J. Kirchoff "Globe and Mail ""

"Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag."
--Stephen King "Entertainment Weekly "

"Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark's noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world [he] makes things simple."
--William Grimes "New York Times "

From the Back Cover

After an absence of decades, master thief Parker returns to steal a flashy TV evangelist's cash.
The heist went down while the people prayed. An angel walked with sagging shoulders - he was Parker's inside man, dressed in wings and robes and destined to be a problem. An hour later, Parker, Liss, and Mackey were out in the shimmering heat of a stadium parking lot with four duffel bags full of cash. Then the double cross began.
"Richard Stark is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century ... his Parker books form a genre all of their own" John Banville
"Whatever Stark writes, I read" Elmore Leonard
"Parker is, of course, the genre's most captivating anti-hero" Daily Mirror

Edition details

• Publisher: Warner Books
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446674656
• ISBN 13: 9780446674652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304