Sunday Salon: Richard Stark, Ask the Parrot
Mysterious Press © 2006, 279 pages
Ask the Parrot, which was published in 2006, is the latest installment in Richard Stark's (aka Donald E. Westlake) series featuring Parker, a very smart, but not always very successful thief. When the book opens, Parker, who's wanted for a bank robbery in Massachusetts, is fleeing on foot from the police. He's just a few minutes away from having a police dog's canines in his backside when salvation presents itself in the form of a loner with a gun, Tom Lindahl, who figures that having a bank robber around the house for a while could work to his advantage. Lindahl offers Parker a way out and a job opportunity, but the latter comes with risks, of course, and involves Parker in the lives of Lindahl's neighbors to a degree that isn't safe for a man on the run.
Posted by Debra Hamel on July 20, 2008 | 
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Sounds interesting. I've never read any Richard Stark books. I'll have to keep him in mind. :-D
Posted by: The Kool-Aid Mom | July 21, 2008 at 12:14 AM