Flashfire - Softcover

Stark, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446677906 ISBN 13: 9780446677905

Publisher: Mysterious Pr, 2001

Synopsis

One of the most notorious figures in crime fiction, Parker returns to seek revenge on the criminals who betrayed him as Melander and his gang head for Palm Beach to score a fortune in stolen jewelry. Reprint.

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Review:

'The writing is as stripped down as a drag racer and the action is as brutal and powerful ... Parker is some mean machine and you will love him' The Scotsman. (Scotsman)

'Invariably well-written, exciting and hugely entertaining. Stark's crisp, convincing dialogue is as good as Elmore Leonard's' The Times. (The Times)

From the Back Cover:

"Park is the genre's most captivating anti-hero" Daily Mirror
When professional thief, Parker, finds himself working with an associate called Melander and his gang on a bank heist in a Midwestern city in Nebraska, his job is throwing a Molotov cocktail into a gas station. The resulting explosion sends the cops and fire trucks to one side of town, while the gang plunders the bank on the other.
But Parker wasn't consulted about Melander's follow-up plan, to use all the money from the bank job, including Parker's cut, to pay for a new heist, the robbery of a Palm Beach jewellers. Now Parker feels cheated and aggrieved, and he's tailing the gang down South, with a plan for getting his own back... and the entire swag of gems besides.
"The nonpareil, the hardboilest of the hard-boiled, one of the best loved names in all of noir" Guardian
"Invariably well-written, exciting and hugely entertaining. Stark's crisp, convincing dialogue is as good as Elmore Leonard's" The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0446677906
• ISBN 13: 9780446677905
• Binding: Paperback