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THE OUTFIT by Donald Westlake
Is the 3rd of Westlake's popular PARKER series.
The Story: Parker awakes in his motel room when a mafia shooter busts thru the door spraying bullets everywhere but hits no one. Parker smacks the shooter and disables the man with a bad concussion. Parker then fills a memo book with names and pushes the shooter down a fire escape stairwell setting the stage for a war against the mafia. No navel gazing or interludes to smell the roses in this book. Its all action and problem solving that serves action.
Westlake was a master porn writer before he wrote noir, and the sex he inserts in the noir isn't the stuff for building strong boners. The gal Parker sleeps with is very violent, and he usually must kick her ass before she starts feeling the love. Parker also collides with ugly women, like his old friends wife. She's huge with a pile of orange hair and missing teeth. Outta the blue she tells her husband Parker raped her. No one believes her and it never happened, so she becomes violent because Parker turned her down and because her husband refused to champion her honor. I think good porn writers become bored with cheer leaders and models.
Westlakes Parker books aren't for OCD critical thinkers, the whole effect falls apart if you think about the action too much. On the other hand the mafia dons aren't spaghetti swilling fat boys with thick Sicilian accents, theyre Harvard grads who talk like Obama. And the women are sharks.
Is the 3rd of Westlake's popular PARKER series.
The Story: Parker awakes in his motel room when a mafia shooter busts thru the door spraying bullets everywhere but hits no one. Parker smacks the shooter and disables the man with a bad concussion. Parker then fills a memo book with names and pushes the shooter down a fire escape stairwell setting the stage for a war against the mafia. No navel gazing or interludes to smell the roses in this book. Its all action and problem solving that serves action.
Westlake was a master porn writer before he wrote noir, and the sex he inserts in the noir isn't the stuff for building strong boners. The gal Parker sleeps with is very violent, and he usually must kick her ass before she starts feeling the love. Parker also collides with ugly women, like his old friends wife. She's huge with a pile of orange hair and missing teeth. Outta the blue she tells her husband Parker raped her. No one believes her and it never happened, so she becomes violent because Parker turned her down and because her husband refused to champion her honor. I think good porn writers become bored with cheer leaders and models.
Westlakes Parker books aren't for OCD critical thinkers, the whole effect falls apart if you think about the action too much. On the other hand the mafia dons aren't spaghetti swilling fat boys with thick Sicilian accents, theyre Harvard grads who talk like Obama. And the women are sharks.
