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Firebreak

By Richard Stark & Terry Teachout
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Publisher Description

Between Parker’s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital—the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.
 
But cash isn’t everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and a collection of priceless paintings. In Flashfire, Parker’s in West Palm Beach, competing with a crew that has an unhealthy love of explosions. When things go sour, Parker finds himself shot and trapped—and forced to rely on a civilian to survive. Firebreak takes Parker to a palatial Montana "hunting lodge" where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen old masters—which will fetch Parker a pretty penny if his team can just get it past the mansion’s tight security. The forests of Montana are an inhospitable place for a heister when well-laid plans fall apart, but no matter how untamed the wilderness, Parker’s guaranteed to be the most dangerous predator around.

4 Reviews

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““That’s all there is, there isn’t any more.” - Ethel Barrymore I finished the whole thing, bring up the house lights - 24 Parker novels done and dusted. It took me about ten years. As you can probably tell, I read the series badly out of order and ended with Firebreak. Not the strongest entry, but it’s entertaining enough and picks up speed as it goes. I don’t usually feel what other people describe as sense of loss at a series end. Too fickle, too likely to abandon a book half way through and move on. My To Read pile is big, but my Half Read and Abandoned pile might be even bigger. With this series, I think I get it - there’ll never be another new one, not really, and something feels a bit off. I suppose, though, since Parker himself is ageless, we can imagine him going on forever. Past Westlake and all his contemporaries, past you and me and everyone else: Parker is and always will be about 38, tough and competent, and looking for a score.”

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