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The Rare Coin Score: A Parker Novel

The Rare Coin Score: A Parker Novel
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a new woman for parker and some interesting characters...
Review date: 2010-06-22 Rating: 10 out of 10

so parker is after... well the title says it... anyway he's convinced to do the job by a weenie of a man coin collector who is in love with his dead brother's wife. the wife likes parker and the feeling is mutual. the link between them is unique as parker swore off keeping a woman for more than a short time after his wife shot him in the first novel. the heist goes off ok but some guy causes problems right at the end... all of parker's thief friends in this one do not get along. it's a clashing group and everyone is planning to mess over the next guy... really cool method to steal the coins and a dry, harsh ending with parker getting what he wants and then some.

also, very refreshing if you've ever read a book in which the author disgustingly over describes everything; two pages to describe a room, three to describe someones feelings, a chapter to describe a single conversation about some unnessecary story, examples are anne rice (interview with the vampire, queen of the damned, etc.) and robert ludlum (the bourne identity, ultimatum, etc.). good writers, but five hundred pages of fluff make you want a more readable two hundred page story that you may even have the patience to re-read eventually. this is that kind of writing, constantly gripping, no boredom, and no non-sense. not to say that the parker novels are devoid of description but that you don't get bored wondering if the author was just trying to make his book bigger by cramming in more information about what a character was thinking, wearing, feeling, seeing, what he had for dinner the night before, what color hair his mother had, where he went to high school, rather than just what is pertinent to the immediate story. in the jacket of one of the books is a quote by someone that talks about how parker is the non hero. not the anti-hero (criminal with a good heart or something) and certainly not the hero, i thought this was very accurate, parker is just a bad guy. he is out to make money and anyone who gets in his way is so much chaff to be discarded.

Another "Parker" Novel Happily Back In Print
Review date: 2010-06-07 Rating: 6 out of 10

First published in 1967, this is another book in Richard Stark's (Donald Westlake's) Parker series that has long been out of print and unavailable. Happily, it has now been resurected and republished by the University of Chicato Press.

In this book, Stark's amoral protagonist plots the theft of a couple of million dollars (that's 1967 dollars!) worth of rare coins from a coin collector's convention in Indianapolis. He devises a fairly ingenious plan, the execution of which sadly depends on some unusually undependable confederates, including one rank amateur who is the insider on the caper. Inevitably things will go wrong as a result, and Parker is left scrambling to save himeself and the loot.

This is another taut, stripped-to-the-bone, entertaining read and, for those who follow the series, it's this book in which Parker finally meets Claire, the woman who will be his long-time lover. Fans of the series will certainly enjoy it, and for those who haven't read the series, this is a particularly good book in which to meet Parker.

Historical Important Read, in that it is the Book Where Parker Meets Claire
Review date: 2010-04-13 Rating: 8 out of 10

The Rare Coin Score doesn't contain the greatest Parker crime caper, in fact it's a fairly uninteresting one that relies on some shoddy security for an event housing such valuable merchandise, as well conveniences of no one in a hotel noticing some unauthorised construction work. What lifts the story though is the introduction of a new character in Claire, who for those who have read books further in this great series know becomes a staple character. The scenes with Claire are far more interesting than the caper to steal a heap of rare coins from a hotel coin convention. If you've read those other Parker books you're going to want to read this adventure just to know how Claire and Parker came to be.

Basic plot, Parker doesn't need a caper, he's got plenty of money to get by from the events of the previous novel The Handle. However he's bored and doing things that are quite, well unparkerlike. He concludes he needs the challenge of planning a caper to get his mind and sanity back on track. However there's not much happening at the moment but a reliable acquaintance named Lepke who he'd worked with a while ago in the past, invites him to join in on what he claims is a sweet deal. Unbeknownst to Parker, Lempke has just come out of a lengthy stint behind bars, the others involved will be amateurs and the guy whose idea it is, is a complete social loser and coward. When a skirt turns up to take him to the meet, Parker knows doing this caper isn't probably going to be a great idea.

The next book in the series is The Green Eagle Score. Unlike a lot of other Parker novels the Rare Coin Score doesn't give away any of the plots of previous novels so you can read this as a standalone if you just want to read the book where Parker meets Claire but plan on reading the previous novels further down the track.

Tight Noir-Crime fiction!
Review date: 2010-03-16 Rating: 8 out of 10

If you like tight early 60's period noir-crime fiction, you'll love the Parker series. A great series for reading while commuting to/from work or during air travel. Long enough to be engaging, but short enough to take in when time is tight. This isn't a 5 course meal, more like a quick lunch from a takeout joint: nothing fancy, but pleasantly filling and satisfying. This book can stand alone on it own but I recommend starting the series from the first book as the storylines tend to setup each subsequent book. A nice guilty pleasure!

Product Details/Specifications

Authors:
Richard Stark

Creators:
Luc Sante (Foreword)

Recording label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
EAN: 9780226771076
Binding: Paperback
Dewey decimal number: 813.54
ISBN: 0226771075
Number of items: 1
Number of pages: 160
Publication date: 2009-08-15
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Published)

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