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    Dirty Money: A Parker Novel

    By Richard Stark and Laura Lippman

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    Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels Westlake wrote—Breakout, Nobody Runs Forever, Ask the Parrot, and Dirty Money—the University of Chicago Press pulls the ultimate score: for the first time ever, the entire Parker series will be available from a single publisher.

    Parker’s got a new fence and a new plan to get the loot back from a botched job in Dirty Money, but a bounty hunter, the FBI, and the local cops are on his tail. Only his brains, his cool, and the help of his lone longtime dame, Claire, can keep him one step ahead of the cars and the guns.

    Featuring new forewords by Chris Holm, Duane Swierczynski, and Laura Lippman—celebrated crime writers, all—these masterworks of noir are the capstone to an extraordinary literary run that will leave you craving more. Written over the course of fifty years, the Parker novels are pure artistry, adrenaline, and logic both brutal and brilliant. Join Parker on his jobs and read them all again or for the first time. But don’t talk to the law.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateSep 8, 2017
    ISBN9780226486291
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    • 5/5
      Dirty Money is number twenty four of Richard Stark's Parker series. It is the final Parker novel since Donald Westlake (aka Richard Stark) is gone and won't be writing any more.

      Parker is a thief. Together with other professionals, he robs banks, armored cars, and casinos. He is ruthless, but not casually cruel. He kills when he has to, but doesn't like the extra heat that will draw.
      In this novel, the story began in Nobody Runs Forever and continued in Ask the Parrot draws to a conclusion. It's not necessary to read the prior novels although it is helpful.

      Parker and a few accomplices pulled off a daring bank robbery, pulling in over $2 million. However, the robbery went wrong, one of his partners got captured, and they had to leave the cash behind as the manhunt for the robbers tightened. This story is about returning for the cash and disposing of the tainted, numbered bills to an overseas buyer. And to top it off, Parker's identity has been blown and his likeness is plastered on wanted posters all over New England.

      Get ready to be introduced to a multitude of characters whose paths keep crisscrossing. This includes the partner who was arrested and then escaped, killing an officer in the process, officers who have chased Parker in two other jurisdictions and know his face, a nosy reporter, and various persons who want either a cut of the money or the whole kit and caboodle.

      There is plenty of action and humor as well, including the getaway vehicle being a van with "Holy Redeemer Choir" plastered on the side and Parker and his girlfriend Claire staying at the same B & B as various law enforcement types hunting for the bank robbers.

      With Westlake's smooth writing style, this is a great read. Go for it.
    • 2/5
      This was a bit of a let down after [Nobody Runs Forever]. I was taken aback that the first book ended with Parker starting to be chased by police hounds on a Massachusetts hill, and was expecting this book to carry on from that. However this started off nearby, with no dogs, with Parker in a vehicle. Only later did it become clear there was an interim book which was got very little press, which must have taken care of the predicament confounding Parker at the end of book one.I couldn't help while reading this feeling that this book could have basically been written in any recent decade, by anyone with some writing skills. Singularly unimpressive. The story included a Jewish moneylender, a svelte female dectective, a journalist in over his head, a bewildered innkeeper, characters available from any stock detective novel. It's not worth inventorying all the overused scenarios. Even Parker, such a unique and pitch-perfect character, seems dulled and not himself in this one.
    • 4/5
      I've been reading Richard Stark for the best part of 20 years. In the early days it was a struggle tracking down the books. I found them online and in odd second-hand shops and bought a bunch from someone selling his collection who sent them to my parents' house with a copy of the book he had published. The books themselves were written over an even longer period with a break of decades in the middle. And throughout them all, Parker never changed. He is the great criminal monolith. I tracked down every last book, including the Grofields and now I've read the last one. I will miss Parker.
    • 5/5
      The last Parker book that Westlake published before his death. It is noted that this is part of a trilogy, but the way the ending is left hanging, there would have been furthur continuation of this story. As always, Westlake tells a great story and the writing is so good you don't notice it.