The long-awaited return of the legendary thief created by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake) in âa riveting tale of betrayal and escapeâ (Chicago Tribune).
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Foreword by Lawrence Block
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After the bloodbath of Butcherâs Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, âRichard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone.â And for nearly twenty-five years, he stayed away, while readers waited.
But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parkerâs as bad as they come. According to Westlake, one day in 1997, âsuddenly, he came back from the dead, with a chalky prison pallorââand the resulting novel, Comeback, showed that neither Stark nor Parker had lost a single step. Knocking over a highly lucrative religious revival show, Parker reminds us that not all criminals don ski masksâsome prefer to hide behind the wings of fallen angels.
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âParker has not lost his touchâor his nerve . . . In a world of warped values, an honest crook like Parker is a true treasure.â âMarilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
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âComeback is brisker, faster, and funnier than the earlier novels . . . Elmore Leonard wouldnât write what he does if Stark hadnât been there before. And Quentin Tarantino wouldnât write what he does without Leonard . . . Old master that he is, Stark does all of them one better.â âLos Angeles Times
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âEnergy and imagination light up virtually every page, as does some of the best hard-boiled prose ever to grace the noir genre.â âPublishers Weekly