Comeback, Donald E. Westlake
Comeback, Donald E. Westlake
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Comeback

Author: Donald E. Westlake, Lawrence Block

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 5 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2013

Synopsis

After the bloodbath of Butcher's Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, "Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone." And for nearly twenty-five years, he stayed away, while readers waited.But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parker's as bad as they come. According to Westlake, one day in 1997, "suddenly, he came back from the dead, with a chalky prison pallor"—and 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 masks—some prefer to hide behind the wings of fallen angels.

About Donald E. Westlake

Richard Stark (1933–2008), wrote dozens of novels under his own name and a rainbow of other pseudonyms. Many of his books have been adapted for film, most notably The Hunter, which became the 1967 noir Point Blank and the 1999 smash Payback.

About Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block is the recipient of a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a New York Times bestselling author. His prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four bestselling series and dozens of short stories and articles. He has won multiple Edgar, and Shamus awards, two Falcon Awards from the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan, the Nero and Philip Marlowe Awards, the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of America, and many others. Aside from being a mystery writer, he has also written a number of episodes for television, including two episodes of the ESPN series Tilt; he also cowrote the screenplay for the film My Blueberry Nights, starring Norah Jones. Block currently lives in New York City with his wife, Lynne.

About Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on February 18, 2021

After Butcher’s Moon (1974), which in a way seemed like a series-ending #16 Parker book, bringing together many characters from previous books, with a slam bang finish, Stark stopped writing Parker novels. His buddy Lawrence Block in his introduction tells us that Stark attempted various novels over......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on October 07, 2015

When Richard Stark (a/k/a Donald Westlake) wrote a new Parker novel for the first time in over twenty years, he also resumed using the gimmick of starting each novel with the word ‘When’ again. So I guess I gotta follow suit in my reviews of them. Parker doesn’t seem to have aged a bit when he hooks......more

Goodreads review by Greg on January 08, 2011

Damn, this book was good. Finishing it, I just went and had the brilliant idea to request the first five Parker novels from library. My brilliant idea was a little flawed by finding out that they only have four of the first five (The Mourner not being in the Queens Library system) and finding out th......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on November 21, 2024

Quite the triumphant comeback for the Parker series! Just picking this up as the next book one would never guess Westlake took a 23 year break from the series and its ageless protagonist. It's as masterfully crafted as the best of them, and feels every bit as authentic. The main ingredients in the t......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on April 02, 2018

I'd say by now it's pretty obvious I'm a "Parker fan". I always "feel" obligated to mention that it surprises me somewhat that this violent antihero (possibly even a psychopath) is one of the characters who's story I've followed... So the book before this came out in 1974...this one was published in......more

Quotes

“Parker has not lost his touch—or his nerve…In a world of warped values, an honest crook like Parker is a true treasure.” New York Times Book Review

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