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The Score

By: Richard Stark
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
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It was an impossible crime: knock off an entire North Dakota town called Copper Canyon - clean out the plant payroll, both banks, and all the stores in one night. Parker called it "science fiction," but with the right men (a score of them), he could figure it out to the last detail. It could work. If the men behaved like pros, cool and smart; if they didn't get impatient, start chasing skirts, or decide to take the opportunity to settle secret old scores…they just might pull it off.< /p>

©1964 Richard Stark. All rights reserved. (P)2011 AudioGO

Accolades & Awards

Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
2013
Thriller & Suspense Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Suspense Mystery Fiction Hard-Boiled

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Engaging Heist Plot • Creative Storyline • Flawless Performance • Brutal Protagonist • Memorable Sociopath Character

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Parker is not a sympathetic character but each of these stories is engrossing well-written had well performed. They are certainly addictive.

the series gets better and better

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If you could sum up The Score in three words, what would they be?

Return To Form

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Score?

Parker's interactions with women both before and after a job.

Which scene was your favorite?

When Edgars reveals his pychotic side and starts shooting people and blowing the town up.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

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I prefer Stephen Thorne's reading than John Chancer's who tended to exaggerate the voices, sometimes quite differently than how I imagined them. While not quite as exciting as The Hunter (the original and still the best) and The Outfit, both of which feature a revenge theme, it is the best of the Parker heist stories so far and a return to form after the disappointing "The Mourner".

Best Parker Book Since The Outfit

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If you can stand the 1950's social standards for noir crime stories, this heist job is right up your alley. I can't get enough of Stark's stories. Great narrator.

Tough guys, crazy heist, good listening

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Love these stories. The 50's noir and the detail. If I did crimes, I would want a partner like Parker.

Best Parker story yet

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In the opening scene of the first Grofield novel, he's just completed a job with Parker. But not until this, the fifth installment of the Parker series, do we get to see them together. Grofield's sallies of wit do much to alleviate the grimness that comes standard with these stories; hence my title, spoken at regular intervals by Parker throughout the narrative, like a leitmotif.

A second departure from previous stories is the appearance of a sociopath even more dangerous than Parker—one with a grievance. Granted, it’s a question of degree, but this new arrival succeeds in transgressing even Parker’s brutal, utilitarian code of professional conduct.

As always with Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), it’s easy to get sucked in, wondering if and how the bad guys will get away with it—and end up (almost) rooting for them. These books are so short they can have the impact of a movie, an effect heightened by Stephen Thorne’s flawless performance. He catches every conversational nuance.

Shut Up, Grofield.

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