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    The Green Eagle Score: A Parker Novel
    The Green Eagle Score: A Parker Novel
    The Green Eagle Score: A Parker Novel
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    The Green Eagle Score: A Parker Novel

    By Richard Stark and Dennis Lehane

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    In The Green Eagle Score, Parker cuts his vacation with Claire short with a new job: stealing the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York. With help from Marty Fusco, fresh out of the pen, and a smart aleck finance clerk named Devers, Parker tries to shorten the odds on the risky job. But the ice is thinner than Parker likes to think—and a wrench always gets thrown in the works.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
    ISBN9780226772820
    The Green Eagle Score: A Parker Novel

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    • 4/5
      Dayum! The author manages to surprise me in every volume.
    • 3/5
      Another good Parker book. Not much more I can say without spoilers, but it's nice to see the quality staying high & the plot as twisty. I FINALLY got the 1st one from the library. I'll be listening to it next.
    • 4/5
      Parker gets roped into robbing an Air Force payroll. Problems abound-the guy who contacts Parker is in the job with his ex-wife's lover. And the ex-wife is seeing a psychiatrist. And the lover is new at the heist business.
    • 4/5
      Westlake’s insights into Freudian analysis throughout some of this novel came as a surprise. Startling, in that one familiar with his work might not have expected such familiarity and understanding by him of the dynamics of the therapeutic, and further astonishing that he presents this seemingly without judgement, carrying its impact on the plot with tact and a professional remove that lends yet one more feather in the hat of this master at work. There’s a lot of compassion running throughout, towards Parker and these surrounding characters in these later novels. Beautiful
    • 4/5
      The Richard Stark books are perfect for reading while being self-quarantined. They are light, fun reads. I've read about two-thirds of the series, not in order as most stand alone very nicely, although I would suggest reading the early ones in order to set the stage, as it were.The Green Eagle Store is typical. Parker is enlisted to help plan an Air Force payroll heist. As nothing ever goes the way it's planned, something completely unforeseen happens and Parker has to scramble to make it away with any money. If you like caper books, these will please for sure. Then you can move on to Westlake's (Stark is a pseudonym for the Parker series) other books. Enjoy.
    • 4/5
      It appears that as Stark (aka Westlake) went forward with the Parker series, his ideas about heists got wilder and crazier. Bank robberies and mansion robberies were one thing, but Stark had Parker go on to pull jobs on entire towns (“The Score”) and entire islands (“The Handle”) before deciding that it was time for Parker to take on the U.S. Air Force itself. Well, not exactly take on the air force, more like, take on the payroll of a large air force base. Apparently, in those crazy days, the payroll was in cash and it was big: $400,000 of big. It’s a crazy scheme that only a madman would think he could pull off and that’s before one stopped to think of all the problems that might crop up such as armed air police, one partner dating another partner’s ex- wife, the ex-wife spilling the scheme to her psychiatrist, make that her monetarily-desperate psychiatrist who has a deep fascination with all the details of the caper and knows people who might also be interested.

      It is a well-written story that moves quickly as do all of the Parker novels. You really can’t go wrong picking up any of the 24 Parker novels or the 4 related Grofield novels by Richard Stark.

      If you want insight into Parker’s character, you get it in the very first scenes he is with his girlfriend, Claire, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they are vacationing at a beachfront resort, her in her bikini, him upstairs talking to a pal who came by to talk about a scheme: the air force base scheme. Parker and Claire have a deal, she doesn’t ask him about his work and he doesn’t volunteer any information. Parker tells Claire that he is going for a few days to check things out and will probably be back soon, but, if the thing works out, if it looks good, then it might be a week or two. Parker also tells her that the rent on the hotel room is paid up for a month and, if he is not back by then, take what’s in the hotel safe, and go on to wherever. She understands, but doesn’t like it.

      A lot of the book, as in many of the Parker novels, is concerned with planning the caper and how Parker assesses the others involved in the operation and whether the amateur involved (the inside man) is up to the task.
    • 3/5
      Parker and the Air Force PayrollReview of the Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook edition (May, 2010) of the Fawcett Gold Medal paperback (1967)Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of the prolific crime author Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008), who wrote over 100 books. The Stark pseudonym was used primarily for the Parker novels, an antihero criminal who is usually betrayed or ensnared in some manner and who spends each book getting revenge or escaping the circumstances.The Green Eagle Score finds Parker mentoring a novice criminal Stan Devers who is the inside man at an Air Force Base with a cash payroll. Of course the heist is betrayed, but through an odd twist that doesn't involve the gang members themselves. Devers is forced to go on the run afterwards and Parker sends him on to Handy McKay for further mentoring. Both Devers and McKay will return with a host of others in The Butcher's Moon (Parker #16).Narrator Stephen Thorne does a good job in all voices in this audiobook edition. I had never previously read the Stark/Parker novels but became curious when they came up in my recent reading of The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives (Sept. 2020) by Nancy Pearl & Jeff Schwager. Here is a (perhaps surprising) excerpt from their discussion with author Amor Towles:Nancy: Do you read Lee Child?Amor: I know Lee. I had never read his books until I met him, but now I read them whenever they come out. I think some of the decisions he makes are ingenious.Jeff: Have you read the Parker books by Donald Westlake [writing as Richard Stark]?Amor: I think the Parker books are an extraordinary series.Jeff: They feel like a big influence on Reacher, right down to the name. Both Reacher and Parker have a singular focus on the task in front of them.Amor: But Parker is amoral. Reacher is just dangerous.Jeff: Right. Reacher doesn't have a conventional morality, but he has his own morality. Parker will do anything he has to do to achieve his goal.Amor: But to your point, Westlake's staccato style with its great twists at the end the end of the paragraphs, and his mesmerizing central character - these attributes are clearly shared by the Reacher books.The 24 Parker books are almost all available for free on Audible Plus, except for #21 & #22 which aren't available at all.Trivia and LinksThere is a brief plot summary of The Green Eagle Score and of all the Parker books and adaptations at The Violent World of Parker website.Like many of the 2010-2013 Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook editions which share the same cover art as the University of Chicago Press 2009-2010 reprints, this audiobook DOES NOT include the Foreword by author Dennis Lehane.

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