Richard Stark: Firebreak, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Firebreak
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- Verlag:
- University of Chicago Press, 08/2011
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780226770659
- Artikelnummer:
- 11905088
- Umfang:
- 304 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 333 g
- Maße:
- 203 x 134 mm
- Stärke:
- 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 15.8.2011
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
An action-packed crime novel starring Parker, the heister starring in the forthcoming Shane Black film Play Dirty!
Richard Stark's Parker novels are the hardest of hard-boiled, classic crime novels where the heists are huge, the body counts are high, and the bad guys usually win.
The Parker novels have been a huge influence on countless writers and filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino, Stephen King, George Pelecanos, Colson Whitehead, Lucy Sante, John Banville, and many more. Their stripped-down language and hard-as-nails amorality create an unforgettable world where the next score could be the big one, but your next mistake could also be your last. There's nothing else like them.
Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. 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 digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone.
But cash isn't everything: Firebreak takes Parker to a palatial Montana "hunting lodge" where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen old masters-which will fetch Parker a pretty penny if his team can just get it past the mansion's 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, Parker's guaranteed to be the most dangerous predator around.
Biografie
Richard Stark (Jahrgang 1933) ist eines von mehreren Pseudonymen des mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichneten Schriftstellers Donald E. Westlake, dem Grandseigneur des amerikanischen Noir-Krimis.§Donald E. Westlake ist am 31.12.2008 im Alter von 75 Jahren verstorben.