Slayground, Donald E. Westlake
Slayground, Donald E. Westlake
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Slayground

Author: Donald E. Westlake, Charles Ardai

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 5 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2013

Synopsis

The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can’t afford a single miscalculation. He’s low on bullets—but, as anyone who’s crossed his path knows, that definitely doesn’t mean he’s defenseless.

About Donald E. Westlake

Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008) wrote dozens of novels under his own name and numerous pseudonyms, including Richard Stark and Alan Marshall. Many of his books have been adapted for film, most notably The Hunter, which became the 1967 noir Point Blank and the 1999 smash hit Payback.

About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett began his acting career at the age of five in the basement of his family's home in upstate New York. He has gone on to play many stage roles, both on and off-Broadway, and in regional theaters from Los Angeles, Houston, and St. Louis to Washington DC, San Francisco, and Portland, Maine. He has appeared in films and television, both prime time and late night, and in hundreds of television and radio commercials. Joe has narrated over two hundred audiobooks. He has been an Audie Award finalist eight times, and his narration of Gun Church by Reed Farrel Coleman won the 2013 Audie Award for Original Work. AudioFile magazine has granted Joe fourteen Earphones Awards, including for James Salter's All That Is and Donald Katz's Home Fires. Regarding Joe's narration of John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany, AudioFile said, "This moving book comes across like a concerto . . . with a soloist-Owen's voice-rising from the background of an orchestral narration." Joe is married to actor Andrea Wright, and together they have four very grown children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on February 05, 2021

Slayground, Parker #14, is surely one of the best of the series. Parker faces cops, corrupt cops, thugs and principled thugs, (he is himself a principled criminal), in a web of doublecrosses that are woven like an intricate spider web. A preface by Charles Adai makes it clear Stark is an artist; jus......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on October 26, 2011

I didn’t realize this for a long time but my first exposure to Parker was in the movie loosely based on this book starring Peter Coyote that ran on cable a lot in my teen years. I only vaguely remembered it, mainly for it’s use of George Thorogood’s Bad to the Bone in the early scenes of the movie.......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on August 10, 2023

4.5 stars. Trapped in an abandoned amusement park after an armored car heist goes awry, Parker leverages his wits and cool head like never before and goes Rambo as the local mob closes in hoping to nab the loot. Essentially one long chase, Slayground has more than the usual doses of suspense and act......more

Goodreads review by brian on January 06, 2011

to hell with y'all and all your crummy new years resolutions: 'lose weight, stop smoking, go vegetarian (<--although, that you should do!), be more/less adventurous, etc...' boring. totally boring. my resolution: gonna read every one of richard stark's 'parker' novels this year. and they're all gonn......more

Quotes

“Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.” Stephen King

“Parker…lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark’s noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells…In a complex world [he] makes things simple.” New York Times

“Parker is a true treasure…The master thief is back, along with Richard Stark.” New York Times Book Review

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