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Summary: a pleasing evening's mystery read!
Review: When Parker hears the phone ringing in his kitchen, he puts down the body of the man sent to kill him & hurries from the garage to answer the phone that Claire offers him. Now he has two jobs to do. First to dispose of the body & then case out the Montana lodge of a dot.com billionaire in which resides a horde of stolen art treasures.One last job before he retires, or so Parker swears! It's not the gold-plated faucets Parker's gang is out to get, it's the contents of a false basement no one else seems to know about. The prize of unregistered stolen paintings is what draws this strange band of lawbreakers together, & to get around all the computerized alarms systems, they've taken on board a whiz kid fresh out of the slammer who has a temper & a parole problem. Richard Stark, aka Donald E. Westlake, has a delightful, in-your-face & breathless writing style. He doesn't give you any extra information or any time to worry about details, because his anti-hero Parker will easily & quite reasonably figure them all out. & you're along for a fine ride!
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