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So this is Breakout, where Parker gets caught in a heist and goes to prison, for the first time in the series, and it’s a new maximum security prison no one has ever broken out of. Look at the title and guess what happens. For the first time, I think, I actually read the hardcover, since the last four books are not yet audiotaped. This is #21 of 24, and is one of the post-Butcher’s Moon books, after which he stopped writing the series for more than twenty years, and it is—again—not as good as an...
Parker's facing a long spell in jail. Busted during what should have been a simple heist -generic drugs from a warehouse- due to a local hire going greed hog and setting off the one alarm the mechanics hadn't figured they needed to jam up.The screws know him as "Ronald Kasper". "Ronald Kasper" was the name Parker was using back in one of the 1st 4 entries in the series when he had to break out of a California prison killing a guard in the process. Parker was fingerprinted as "Kasper".These flat-...
my third post-hiatus parker book. and it's good. a tightly plotted story involving three breakouts:1. parker assembles a string in prison to break the hell out before they're transferred to high-security. 2. parker and crew have gotta break out of an armory once their entry/exit tunnel has collapsed. 3. parker and mackay have gotta use legal maneuvering and intimidation to break brenda out of a police holding tank. and i particularly love the final few pages as parker hitches a ride with a middl...
The robbery of a pharmaceutical wholesaler goes south and Parker winds up in the clink. The cops have his prints and link him to the killing he did as Ronald Kasper when he escaped the work camp ages ago. Can Parker bust out of the hoosegow? And what's waiting in the wings when he does?I've been complaining about the post-Butcher's Moon Parker books not being as good as the early ones for quite some time. They're too long and don't have the punch of the earlier books. So, is Breakout more of the...
Donald Westlake has been a favorite of mine for years. It wasn't to I joined GR that I found out he also wrote under Richard Stark! I have just started to read the Parker series from Stark. Parker is Stark's answer to Westlake's Dortmunder. Both are likeable thieves that you root for against the Law! Looking forward to reading more of his Parker series.
Parker has miraculously avoided the law until a knucklehead on a pharmaceutical warehouse job goes into the alarmed office, and the whole crew goes to the pokie. The cops are trying to get each to rat out the others, but Parker has the most to lose since his fingerprints are in the system from his previous prison sentence where there is an inmate murder so Parker needs to get out. He recruits his cellmate and another inmate, and they do what has never been done in this overcrowded facility, with...
It's been awhile since I read a Parker novel. Ever since Donald Westlake (Richard Stark) died, I've been spacing them out a little more, since I know there won't be any more of them.At first, I thought "Breakout" was a little lazy. After Parker and his hastily assembled crew of cons break out of jail, they're immediately embroiled in a caper, and the way in to the former armory/current jewel warehouse seemed overly simple. One of the things I love about this series is the way Westlake sets up a
In the 21st of 24 Parker novels “Breakout,” Parker is arrested and placed into a detention center, awaiting arraignment. Although Parker once mentioned he had been temporarily on a prison farm in California under an assumed name, throughout all the Parker novels, he has been this invincible behemoth who never gets picked up, never does time. The authorities don’t really know who he is. Therefore, if you have been reading these novels, you rarely think about the possibility of Parker being taken
The Parker series of books by Richard Stark have enjoyed perennial popularity--and that’s with a 23-year hiatus in its run. But why? Evan as an enthusiastic member of the club, I cannot say definitively. The protagonist has no redeeming attributes. Even traits like his professionalism and single-minded determination, which could be seen as positives in certain situations, come at the expense of any humanitarian impulse. And his ultimate goal in each story contains nothing resembling beneficial i...
Excellent Parker novel. Not much goes right for Parker this time, but it's an exciting twist when he's arrested. Some new partners (and an old one) make for an entertaining read.
