Firebreak

✍ Scribed by Richard Stark

• Publisher: Mysterious Press;University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2001;2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 131 KB
• Edition: University of Chicago Press ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0226770656

✦ Synopsis

Between Parkers 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. 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 digitalthe days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.

But cash isnt everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and a collection of priceless paintings. In Flashfire, Parkers in West Palm Beach, competing with a crew that has an unhealthy love of explosions; when things go sour, Parker finds himself shot and trappedand 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 masterswhich will fetch Parker a pretty penny if his team can just get it past the mansions 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, Parkers guaranteed to be the most dangerous predator around.Like all of Starks Parker novels, Firebreak is a brutal yet compelling glimpse into the amoral world of crime and revenge.BooklistThe action [in Flashfire] is nonstop. . . . The awful fascination in these Parker tales comes from knowing the protagonist will always do whatever is necessary to protect himself and to achieve his goals.Wall Street Journal

Library : General
Universes : Parker [20]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780226770659