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The Sour Lemon Score (Parker, #12)
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Maybe when I'm all done with the Parker novels I'll go back and award five-stars to some of them. This might be one of them.
In the Parker oeuvre this is the 12th novel and like a tonal scale this returns to the same note the scale started with in a different octave. In this case the scale was descending, and The Sour Lemon Score is a lower, darker and more ominous version of The Hunter.
The novel starts with Parker and three professional cronies doing a relatively easy job that goes sour when they return to their hideout and the driver of the job attempts to double-cross the other three. He successfully kills two of the men but, opps, he tried to kill Parker last. Big mistake in the Parker universe. The man gets away with the money but now has Parker looking to kill him and retrieve the money.
The general rule in a Parker novel is the same as in a successful revolution, you better make sure to kill all your enemies if you are going to be successful in over-turning the apple cart and upsetting the balance of power if you plan on living long enough to enjoy the rewards.
Parker and another group of criminals race each other to find the double-crosser, driving up and down the Northeast and leaving a wake of tortured, raped, and murdered people behind them. Parker's own sociopath side is mellowed out from some earlier books but that doesn't mean Stark isn't allowing other characters to do some very awful things.
Even though it is mining some of the same story elements as the first novel in the series, this isn't a rehash and shows again Stark's brilliance at being able to make the same basic formulaic story-lines feel fresh.
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In the Parker oeuvre this is the 12th novel and like a tonal scale this returns to the same note the scale started with in a different octave. In this case the scale was descending, and The Sour Lemon Score is a lower, darker and more ominous version of The Hunter.
The novel starts with Parker and three professional cronies doing a relatively easy job that goes sour when they return to their hideout and the driver of the job attempts to double-cross the other three. He successfully kills two of the men but, opps, he tried to kill Parker last. Big mistake in the Parker universe. The man gets away with the money but now has Parker looking to kill him and retrieve the money.
The general rule in a Parker novel is the same as in a successful revolution, you better make sure to kill all your enemies if you are going to be successful in over-turning the apple cart and upsetting the balance of power if you plan on living long enough to enjoy the rewards.
Parker and another group of criminals race each other to find the double-crosser, driving up and down the Northeast and leaving a wake of tortured, raped, and murdered people behind them. Parker's own sociopath side is mellowed out from some earlier books but that doesn't mean Stark isn't allowing other characters to do some very awful things.
Even though it is mining some of the same story elements as the first novel in the series, this isn't a rehash and shows again Stark's brilliance at being able to make the same basic formulaic story-lines feel fresh.
(view spoiler)
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Reading Progress
May 8, 2011
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Started Reading
May 8, 2011
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May 8, 2011
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crime-fiction
May 8, 2011
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