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Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker universe, starring Alan Grofield, an occasional colleague of Parker. While he shares events and characters with several Parker novels, Grofield is less calculating and more hot-blooded than Parker; think fewer guns, more dames.
Not that there isn’t violence and adventure aplenty. The third Grofield novel, The Blackbird shares its first chapter with Slayground: after a traumatic car crash, Parker eludes the police, but Grofield gets caught. Lying injured in the hospital, Grofield is visited by G-Men who offer him an alternative to jail, and he finds himself forced into a deadly situation involving international criminals and a political conspiracy.
With a new foreword by Sarah Weinman that situates the Grofield series within Westlake’s work as a whole, this novel is an exciting addition to any crime fiction fan’s library.
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Grofield takes the case, although that doesn't mean he won't try to double cross everyone around him. This case involves an intelligence operation in Canada, where things quickly get out of hand, as they always do in a Parker book, just after the action starts. At the end, after snowmobile chases across the frozen tundra and lots of violence, the good guys win, largely due to Grofield.
The pluses of the book are the always crackling dialogue, the smooth pacing, and the way the reader is always sucked up for a ride by Stark's prose. I still don't find Grofield as intriguing as Parker, but then Parker is an iconic figure in crime fiction. If you've read the Parker novels and want more, this book is for you. Be sure to read this series in order.
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