Backflash: A Parker Novel (Abridged) Audiobook

" 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 this time out. Starklake doesn't play with his own conventions as he sometimes does--he just marches through them. Of course, this wouldn't be my reaction if this were my first encounter with Parker, in which case I would probably think this was a great book. More than anything, this all suggests that I ought to take a break from Parker. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT ALERT: In Backflash, Parker laughs at a joke. "

" Parker is back as strong as ever. "

" Solid Parker novel. The Parker series has got to be the most-consistently well-written series in hardboiled crime novel history. "

" Like all Stark novels, incredibly quick pace. Never read any Archer whose novels move as quickly. "

" Vintage Stark/Westlake hardboiled caper featuring Parker, the thief who works for his money and leaves no loose ends, ever. "

" Clean crime writing and the upstate New York setting is great. "

" Heist on a floating riverboat casino on the Hudson. Flawless planning and careful elimination of problems as they crop up. Even a bunch of opportunists that show up to heist the heist are dealt with in a methodical fashion. Beautiful. "

" One of the later Parker novels involving a job to rob a gambling riverboat. Stark's writing improves throughout the series, but I miss the more hard boiled/noirish style of the earlier books. "

" Parker takes on someone else's score, and has to deal with an unhappy scammer locked out of the deal. "

" Classic Parker - setup, heist, problems and solutions (usually quite unpleasant for the problem person). "

" Seriously kids, this is the last of the Parker books that I'll read for a while. I think I've covered everything that the library has. And boy, it was killer. "

" This one is kind of a back to basics Parker story. Just a regular old heist with some excellent complications. Highly recommended. Can't believe this is number eighteen. Richard Stark (a.k.a. Donald Westlake) is a guy who never seemed to run out of ideas. "

" Parker takes on someone else's score, and has to deal with an unhappy scammer locked out of the deal. "

" This one is kind of a back to basics Parker story. Just a regular old heist with some excellent complications. Highly recommended. Can't believe this is number eighteen. Richard Stark (a.k.a. Donald Westlake) is a guy who never seemed to run out of ideas. "

" Totally out of order. I am. Finish Slayground before I start Butcher's Moon. I will. Promise. "

" Heist on a floating riverboat casino on the Hudson. Flawless planning and careful elimination of problems as they crop up. Even a bunch of opportunists that show up to heist the heist are dealt with in a methodical fashion. Beautiful. "

" Vintage Stark/Westlake hardboiled caper featuring Parker, the thief who works for his money and leaves no loose ends, ever. "

" Like all Stark novels, incredibly quick pace. Never read any Archer whose novels move as quickly. "

" Seriously kids, this is the last of the Parker books that I'll read for a while. I think I've covered everything that the library has. And boy, it was killer. "

" Parker is back as strong as ever. "