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ageorgiadis 's review for:
The Man with the Getaway Face
by Richard Stark
“I said I’d be back.”
The storytelling in “Man with the Getaway Face” is stunningly good. The narrative is straightforward, chronologically pickup up immediately after Parker’s revenge of “The Hunter” . An underground plastic surgeon has given him a new face and identity, so that the Syndicate/Outfit/Bad dudes after him cannot track him down. There is a lot of detail about the logistics of his next impending robbery and how he and his abettors are going to pull it off. And there is always one bad apple.
Still, the narrative does not have a traditional or predictable feel. People show up or disappear at the wrong moments. Parker deals with trouble in a brutally simplistic way. He is not overly greedy, and despite being a degenerate and a murderer has a rough moral code that make his actions fascinating. I will continue to read his stories as long as they are this good.
The storytelling in “Man with the Getaway Face” is stunningly good. The narrative is straightforward, chronologically pickup up immediately after Parker’s revenge of “The Hunter” . An underground plastic surgeon has given him a new face and identity, so that the Syndicate/Outfit/Bad dudes after him cannot track him down. There is a lot of detail about the logistics of his next impending robbery and how he and his abettors are going to pull it off. And there is always one bad apple.
Still, the narrative does not have a traditional or predictable feel. People show up or disappear at the wrong moments. Parker deals with trouble in a brutally simplistic way. He is not overly greedy, and despite being a degenerate and a murderer has a rough moral code that make his actions fascinating. I will continue to read his stories as long as they are this good.