Legendary thief Parker is brought in on a payroll heist that, surprisingly, takes place on an Air Force base in Richard Stark's The Green Eagle Score.
Donald Westlake wrote quite a few Parker novels as Richard Stark, mostly hard-boiled caper novels, a lot of which became movies, comics, spinoff novels, homages, and so on. I have read and enjoyed a number of them over the years, which I started looking for after getting to meet the gracious Westlake once.
I found this novel, from the late 60s, as an audiobook at the New Castle-Henry County Public Library in New Castle, Indiana, so I gave it a listen. It's a very tidy little heist story with an interesting setting, and naturally has the requisite double and triple crosses (many centered around an unscrupulous psychotherapist).
Genre readers who have yet to discover Donald Westlake, or The Green Eagle Score in particular, will find much to enjoy.
Donald Westlake wrote quite a few Parker novels as Richard Stark, mostly hard-boiled caper novels, a lot of which became movies, comics, spinoff novels, homages, and so on. I have read and enjoyed a number of them over the years, which I started looking for after getting to meet the gracious Westlake once.
I found this novel, from the late 60s, as an audiobook at the New Castle-Henry County Public Library in New Castle, Indiana, so I gave it a listen. It's a very tidy little heist story with an interesting setting, and naturally has the requisite double and triple crosses (many centered around an unscrupulous psychotherapist).
Genre readers who have yet to discover Donald Westlake, or The Green Eagle Score in particular, will find much to enjoy.
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