Then, in a twist that I don’t understand even though I read it three times, the NYC narcotics squad ends up getting the suitcase and Parker barely catches a train out of Grand Central Station alive. But that’s the best thing about books like this. Even if the plots don’t make sense, and they often don’t because they’re written quickly for small amounts of money, the character and the mood can carry you a long way.
-Neal Pollack on Donald Westlake’s Parker books (written as Richard Stark), in Los Angeles Review of Books
