Comeback
A Parker Novel
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4,4 • 10 notes
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- 14,99 $US
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- 14,99 $US
Description de l’éditeur
The long-awaited return of the legendary thief created by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake) in "a riveting tale of betrayal and escape" (Chicago Tribune).
Foreword by Lawrence Block
After the bloodbath of Butcher's Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone." And for nearly twenty-five years, he stayed away, while readers waited.
But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parker's as bad as they come. According to Westlake, one day in 1997, "suddenly, he came back from the dead, with a chalky prison pallor"—and the resulting novel, Comeback, showed that neither Stark nor Parker had lost a single step. Knocking over a highly lucrative religious revival show, Parker reminds us that not all criminals don ski masks—some prefer to hide behind the wings of fallen angels.
"Parker has not lost his touch—or his nerve . . . In a world of warped values, an honest crook like Parker is a true treasure." —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
"Comeback is brisker, faster, and funnier than the earlier novels . . . Elmore Leonard wouldn't write what he does if Stark hadn't been there before. And Quentin Tarantino wouldn't write what he does without Leonard . . . Old master that he is, Stark does all of them one better." —Los Angeles Times
"Energy and imagination light up virtually every page, as does some of the best hard-boiled prose ever to grace the noir genre." —Publishers Weekly
Avis d’utilisateurs
Surprisingly good
Even though I like some of the older books better, this is another great Parker with twists and turns and impossible situations that Parker wriggles through. Stark’s thorough research - how the light of the sun fades in the abandoned hideout house, the black of darkness, and the rise of light from moonlight - and how this affects Parker’s and Liss’s desperate struggle to kill each other first - amazing. Even the abandoned 1920s modern glass Frank Lloyd Wright type house that was spoiled by the new freeway system routes - remarkable imagination. And the small time crooks trying to heist the professionals - all so cleverly woven. Richard Stark / Donald Westlake is a master. But it’s not the same as the old books - where he took his criminal buddies with him from book to book, and there was continuity. It seemed more like a complete world then, and I cared about the characters more.