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DIRTY MONEY by Donald Westlake, 276 pages.
Westlake wrote 24 Parker novels tween 1960 and 2008, when he died. DIRTY MONEY is the last book Westlake published, or close to it. DIRTY MONEY is the sequel to another Parker book in which Parker robs two plus million bux from 4 armor cars.
The Story: In this sequel Parker returns to Massachusetts to retrieve the millions he and the gang hid at an abandoned church in a rural area as they fled the police dragnet.
Westlake was pretty clever with the recovery of the money. Parker loaded a van with the money as the state police watched him do it and let him drive away. Parker had them convinced he and the others were homeless drunks (temps) paid to move 100s of old hymnals from the old church to a new church on Long Island. On the way to Long Island every POS in New York tried to steal the money from Parker.
But overall the book sucked. It sucked because all the cops guessed right all the time. Their wildest hunches were dead on the money every fucking time. But Parker was faster at pulling rabbits from his ass, and stayed ahead of the law.
Westlake wrote 24 Parker novels tween 1960 and 2008, when he died. DIRTY MONEY is the last book Westlake published, or close to it. DIRTY MONEY is the sequel to another Parker book in which Parker robs two plus million bux from 4 armor cars.
The Story: In this sequel Parker returns to Massachusetts to retrieve the millions he and the gang hid at an abandoned church in a rural area as they fled the police dragnet.
Westlake was pretty clever with the recovery of the money. Parker loaded a van with the money as the state police watched him do it and let him drive away. Parker had them convinced he and the others were homeless drunks (temps) paid to move 100s of old hymnals from the old church to a new church on Long Island. On the way to Long Island every POS in New York tried to steal the money from Parker.
But overall the book sucked. It sucked because all the cops guessed right all the time. Their wildest hunches were dead on the money every fucking time. But Parker was faster at pulling rabbits from his ass, and stayed ahead of the law.
