Backflash
A Suspense, Thriller, Crime book. People get used to everything but being dead. Richard Stark, Backflash //
When the steel-nerved crook Parker receives a tip about a floating casino stuffed with cash on the Hudson River, the job is too tempting to pass up. With his usual meticulous precision, he plans every detail of the heist, from the guns to the getaway boat. His team is ready. But somebody finds out about the scheme, and soon Parker finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of greed, lies,...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 292 pages
- ISBN: 9780892966622 / 892966629
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Killing was never a good idea unless there were no other ideas. Richard Stark, Backflash // People get used to everything but being dead. Richard Stark, Backflash //
fans of good thrillers "When the car stopped rolling, Parker kicked out the rest of the windshield and crawled out onto the wrinkled hood, Glock first."I consider this a contender for best first line of all time. I used it when I taught language arts as an example of how to find a compelling first sentence. Go back and remove "the rest of" and it's still... This is the sort of Parker novel that I like best: it focuses fairly narrowly on Parker planning and executing a heist and then dealing with the aftermath. So why didn't I like it more? Why did I actually find it a wee bit tedious? The answer, I think, is that while Starklake ably executes the Parker formula, it feels like a formula...
