Dirty Money: A Parker Novel
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'Parker is probably the genre's most captivating anti-hero … he's showing little signs of ageing and neither is Stark's prose - it's as lean, hungry and tightly plotted as ever … superior entertainment.' Daily Mirror (Book of the Week).
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'Parker is probably the genre's most captivating anti-hero he's showing little signs of ageing and neither is Stark's prose - it's as lean, hungry and tightly plotted as ever superior entertainment.' Daily Mirror (Book of the Week).
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As mean and merciless as ever, Parker commits a run-of-the-mill robbery because he needs some cash to tide him over until he can recover the much bigger haul of marked greenbacks he and his current accomplices had to hide away whilst escaping from last week's heist. It's a Richard Stark roller-coaster, no holds barred, no prose wasted, cut to the quick and we're off again with one of fiction's most amoral and, dare I say it, enjoyable characters.
Nobody moves more quickly through a novel than Stark; you have only just started reading and next minute you are ejected out the rear end like space-station rubbish. Where did that time go? Well, while you were in there, trying to keep up with Parker, you had a co-heister caught and lost by the police, a new woman arrived, she is a private detective, by the way, who wants Parker to locate for her the dead body from a previous escapade so that she can claim the bounty, she is telling, yes telling Parker that she is now the beneficiary of the said co-heister's share and there's nothing Parker can do about it because she has some mighty incriminating evidence that might just fall into the hands of the police if Parker does the wrong thing.......whoa, slow down, I need to catch my breath.......no time, we have to check the money is where we left it, find a way of getting to it now that the police are crawling all over the area and just waiting for any sign of the robbers returning to collect their prize and........enough.
If you like Parker, you'll love this.
Nobody moves more quickly through a novel than Stark; you have only just started reading and next minute you are ejected out the rear end like space-station rubbish. Where did that time go? Well, while you were in there, trying to keep up with Parker, you had a co-heister caught and lost by the police, a new woman arrived, she is a private detective, by the way, who wants Parker to locate for her the dead body from a previous escapade so that she can claim the bounty, she is telling, yes telling Parker that she is now the beneficiary of the said co-heister's share and there's nothing Parker can do about it because she has some mighty incriminating evidence that might just fall into the hands of the police if Parker does the wrong thing.......whoa, slow down, I need to catch my breath.......no time, we have to check the money is where we left it, find a way of getting to it now that the police are crawling all over the area and just waiting for any sign of the robbers returning to collect their prize and........enough.
If you like Parker, you'll love this.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Stark's anti-hero Parker is in fine form as usual. No-one does hard-boiled like Stark!
A previous reviewer criticised this book by saying that in the past, Parker would never allow himself to be blackmailed by a female bounty hunter, but would have simply killed her and moved on. That reader obviously failed to grasp the point that she had a dossier on Parker and his current crew which was held by a third party to be released to the law if anything happened to her.
Crisply plotted, with taut dialogue and great action, this is a welcome addition to the Parker legend. Long may he reign in the dark world he inhabits!
Jim Beatson
A previous reviewer criticised this book by saying that in the past, Parker would never allow himself to be blackmailed by a female bounty hunter, but would have simply killed her and moved on. That reader obviously failed to grasp the point that she had a dossier on Parker and his current crew which was held by a third party to be released to the law if anything happened to her.
Crisply plotted, with taut dialogue and great action, this is a welcome addition to the Parker legend. Long may he reign in the dark world he inhabits!
Jim Beatson
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Time for another visit with the criminal element
8 July 2008
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Detailed yet fast-moving crime tale delivers the goods, satisfyingly and often violently wrapping up the loose ends from the last two "Parker" books, "Nobody Runs Forever" (which ends in a great cliff hanger) and "Ask the Parrot".
The "Parker" novels only reveal characters' traits and personalities through their responses to plot developments (there are no breaks in the plot to show what characters do during a quiet night at home, for instance), and this novel is no exception. Having said that, we do get a few new chords in the song this time out, to keep things interesting. For one thing, we get to see a lot more of Parker's girlfriend (or possibly wife, for all we know) Claire, who actually helps out with the caper in progress. And there's also an entertaining female bounty hunter, Sandra Loscalzo, who's part of the gang this time. Sandra's amusing banter (which even makes the stoic Parker crack a small smile from time to time) adds another layer to the book, but not to the point of softening the hardboiled nature of the proceedings (thankfully).
I did like the fact that Parker is actually allowed an outright laugh line this time out, positioned as the last line in the book, no less. But don't worry; though very funny, it's an edgy, noir-ish bit of humor very much in tone with the dark flavor of this excellent crime series.
Note to fellow Amazon Kindle users: The book reads excellently on the Kindle, which is also offering the previously mentioned "Nobody Runs Forever" and "Ask the Parrot". So you're all set to enjoy the entire three-book epic. And by the time you're finished, maybe a few other "Parker" novels will make their way onto Kindle (right now, "Firebreak" is the only other one available). But, really, you don't need to read these books in order. Even among the closely-related entries (like the ones covered in this review), you can just pick up any "Parker" book and start reading. It's just more fun to experience things as the main character does. If fun is the right word for a series where a happy ending is the crooks evading the cops and getting away with the cash.
The "Parker" novels only reveal characters' traits and personalities through their responses to plot developments (there are no breaks in the plot to show what characters do during a quiet night at home, for instance), and this novel is no exception. Having said that, we do get a few new chords in the song this time out, to keep things interesting. For one thing, we get to see a lot more of Parker's girlfriend (or possibly wife, for all we know) Claire, who actually helps out with the caper in progress. And there's also an entertaining female bounty hunter, Sandra Loscalzo, who's part of the gang this time. Sandra's amusing banter (which even makes the stoic Parker crack a small smile from time to time) adds another layer to the book, but not to the point of softening the hardboiled nature of the proceedings (thankfully).
I did like the fact that Parker is actually allowed an outright laugh line this time out, positioned as the last line in the book, no less. But don't worry; though very funny, it's an edgy, noir-ish bit of humor very much in tone with the dark flavor of this excellent crime series.
Note to fellow Amazon Kindle users: The book reads excellently on the Kindle, which is also offering the previously mentioned "Nobody Runs Forever" and "Ask the Parrot". So you're all set to enjoy the entire three-book epic. And by the time you're finished, maybe a few other "Parker" novels will make their way onto Kindle (right now, "Firebreak" is the only other one available). But, really, you don't need to read these books in order. Even among the closely-related entries (like the ones covered in this review), you can just pick up any "Parker" book and start reading. It's just more fun to experience things as the main character does. If fun is the right word for a series where a happy ending is the crooks evading the cops and getting away with the cash.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
entertaining crime caper sequel
26 April 2008
Format:Hardcover
Master thief Parker cannot believe how much went wrong when he and his two partners robbed an armored car (see NOBODY RUNS FOREVER). Not only was the loot no good as it was "poisoned" by authorities, the cops caught one of his cronies Nick Dalesia when he tried to use the DIRTY MONEY. Nick escaped but killed a marshal. Parker fled Massachusetts leaving the two plus million behind hidden in a loft of an abandoned rural church as he heads to Long island to regroup knowing that the cop murder places Nick in a different zone from robbery. He assumes the third partner McWhitny will agree with his assessment.
Bounty-hunter Sandra Loscalzo knows that Parker is the means to her getting a cut of the loot. Though he knows she is on his tail and so are other less moral souls from both sides of the law, Parker decides the time to return to Massachusetts to collect the money is now. All he needs is a plan to elude law enforcement, miscreants, and Sandra starting with the Holy Redeemer Choir van.
This is a direct follow up to NOBODY RUNS FOREVER, but though DIRTY MONEY can stand alone it behooves fans to read the first book because references back to that tale become more meaningful. Long time readers will find a different Parker in this crime caper as he is much more subdued than usual; an apropos reaction to the robbery fiasco and murder. This is an entertaining crime caper with the antihero seeking more than just the stolen cache, he tries to regain his swagger as he lost some of his moxie when he fled Massachusetts empty handed.
Harriet Klausner
Bounty-hunter Sandra Loscalzo knows that Parker is the means to her getting a cut of the loot. Though he knows she is on his tail and so are other less moral souls from both sides of the law, Parker decides the time to return to Massachusetts to collect the money is now. All he needs is a plan to elude law enforcement, miscreants, and Sandra starting with the Holy Redeemer Choir van.
This is a direct follow up to NOBODY RUNS FOREVER, but though DIRTY MONEY can stand alone it behooves fans to read the first book because references back to that tale become more meaningful. Long time readers will find a different Parker in this crime caper as he is much more subdued than usual; an apropos reaction to the robbery fiasco and murder. This is an entertaining crime caper with the antihero seeking more than just the stolen cache, he tries to regain his swagger as he lost some of his moxie when he fled Massachusetts empty handed.
Harriet Klausner
17 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Clean Art
15 April 2008
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Richard Stark, who is Donald E. Westlake who is Tucker Coe who is Samuel Holt who may just be Ernest Heminway for all I know, has been writing superior crime novels since I was a kid... and I ain't that young. I think he is probably about 137 now. He writes like he's 22. Dirty Money is the third book in a trilogy we didn't even know WAS a trilogy! It rounds out the adventure started in Nobody Runs Forever and digressed about in Ask The Parrot.It is a frighteningly capable and exciting thriller. It has been edited by idiots, but that doesn't matter. It's been written by a giant. Buy it and read it. If you have to choose between the two, buy it.
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