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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Parker and the Riverboat Casino Review of the Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook edition (April 2013) of the Warner Books / Mysterious Press hardcover (October 1998) Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of the prolific crime writer Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008), who wrote over 100 books. The Stark pseudonym was used primarily for the Parker novels, an antihero criminal who is usually betrayed or ensnared in some manner and who spends each book getting revenge or escaping the circumstances. In Backflash, Parker is engaged by a retired state bureaucrat who is morally opposed to gambling and a new state initiative for a trial run boat casino. Parker enlists a heist crew who take on disguises for their entry onto the boat with one part of the crew doing the robbery and the others to get the loot off the boat separately. Parker is suspicious of the insider bureaucrat's motives and senses that a betrayal may be planned so he has to keep watching his back throughout. These final Parker novels from #17 to #24 seem stronger and more complex than the original run which was probably due to Westlake/Stark's development as a writer over the years and during the 23 year hiatus. Several of these are strong 4's to 5's (I've actually read or listened to all of them now and am just parceling out the reviews over time). Backflash is the 2nd book of 5 in a title arc by Richard Stark where the second syllable in each one-word title provides the first syllable of the next one as in 1) Comeback, 2) Backflash, 3) Flashfire, 4) Firebreak and 5) Breakout. Narrator Keith Szarabjka does an excellent job in all voices in this audiobook edition. The narration includes the Introduction by Lawrence Block as read by Szarabjka. I had never previously read the Stark/Parker novels but became curious when they came up in my recent reading of The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives (Sept. 2020) by Nancy Pearl & Jeff Schwager. Here is a (perhaps surprising) excerpt from their discussion with author Amor Towles: Nancy: Do you read Lee Child? The 24 Parker books are almost all available for free on Audible Plus, except for #21 & #22 which aren't available at all. Trivia and Links The Backflash page at The Violent World of Parker website is not as complete as those for the earlier books, but does provide cover images of the different editions. Unlike many of the 2010-2013 Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook editions which share the same cover art as the University of Chicago Press 2009-2011 reprints, this audiobook DOES include the Foreword by author [author:Lawrence Block|17613]. Book #18, though #2 after a long hiatus. Parker is contacted by a man named Cathman, a retired government bureaucrat, who wants to rob a casino ship on the Hudson River between Albany and Poughkeepsie. As the inside man, Cathman has all the details, but Parker is worried about his motives and the limited escape routes from a riverboat casino, even one filled with cash. After completing his due diligence and developing a viable plan, he assembles a familiar crew of thieves to pull off the daring job. But, as always, there are competing forces, leading to the usual post-heist mayhem. I especially liked the role played by Noelle Braselle, as a sympathetic, wheelchair-bound invalid. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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HTML: After the publication of Butcher's Moon in 1974, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone." And 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 novels that followed showed that neither Parker nor Stark had lost a step. Backflash followed finds Parker checking out the scene on a Hudson River gambling boat. Parker's no fan of either relaxation or risk, however, so you can be sure he's playing with house money??and he's willing to do anything to tilt the odds in his favor. Featuring a great cast of heisters, a striking setting, and a new introduction by Westlake's close friend and writing partner, Lawrence Block, this classic Parker adventure deserve a place of honor on any crime fan's bookshelf Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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But there always seems to be a hitch with these plans, and in this book, Ray Becker is that hitch.
Parker said, “I came to tell you, your problems are over after all.”
No loose ends in Parker’s world.
Another really good chapter in this series! I am in awe that even though this is the eighteenth book, it's still fresh and entertaining! I'll be sad when I finally read my last Parker novel. ( )