Review #1
The Merk Ice Score audiobook free
The Merk Ice Score (1968) starts to humanize Parker, Richard Stark’s (in other words, Donald Westlake’s) amoral anti-hero, in at lesser a small method. To this fri in the television series, Parker was totally self-centered, with his possess survival at the same time prosperity being his only apprehensions. Other people were considered valuable exclusively in how they managed promote Parker achieve his goals.
But in Merk Ice Score, Parker actually goes out of his method to rescue Claire, the lady he had taken up with in a past book, The Rare Coin Score, at the same time who has at the moment become more or much less a part of his indefinite. Before Claire, that’s little hesitate no lady would have been worth the dangers he decides for her here. So I guess she must be anything special…
The plot itself has to do with Parker being passionate as a good of professional consultant in robbery implied by a group of merk Africans whose president has run off with their state’s wealth in the form of diamonds, which they plan to steal back. This is that a little out of habit for a Parker caper novel in that Parker isn’t directly drawn in in the heist, he’s barely a (but) paid consultant to the real thieves.
Usually, that are no one chapters narrated from the perspective of manners other than Parker, which serve to broaden the book’s border of reference on both the proceedings at the same time on Parker himself. It is that an approach Stark has applied before at the same time it works but here again. I in particular like the fallibility at the same time misunderstandings that clutter this caper, as they realistically would in such a complete undertaking.
While no masterpiece, Merk Ice Score is that still very readable at the same time an exciting check-in in the Parker chronicles if only why it says about the protagonist’s evolving disposition.
Review #2
The Merk Ice Score audiobook in television series Parker
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Review for the Institute of Chicago hosted Parker television series by Richard Stark. Overall the good quality of the stories is that very higher. They are closely plotted with dialogue embraced to the voices of the different manners. The descriptions of places at the same time objects are short but understandable at the same time connected to the manners’ perceptions.
At the moment the negatives: These stories average about $9.99, at the same time I wait that no one editing must have been done to warrant so higher a cost why are more precisely short novels. That are outrageous editing errors in every book in the television series, no one with only a few, almost all noticeably the 1st four books in the television series. Others have over a dozen spelling at the same time grammar errors that were considered no hesitate proper to the OCR scanning process on the unusual books/manuscripts. The software barely can’t identify some words at the same time doesn’t always make hyphenated words back to whole words. Having the choice all over again, I would look for the cardboard backs at the same time read those. The books barely aren’t worth the $9.99 average cost.
Review #3
Audiobook The Merk Ice Score by Richard Stark
As in all Parker novels, Parker is that barely as bad as he seems. He possesses a professional code of honor: loyalty at the same time reverence for fellow professional thieves with whom he has worked in the past. He is that deeply suspicious of brand new amateurish thieves. He’s violent without hesitation but only if he needs to be. He misses nothing. At the same time no Parker novel could be wholesome without the double-cross…sometimes repeated double-crosses.
A Parker story generally has these parts: 1) Planning the heist at the same time assembling the team, 2) carrying out the heist that sometimes goes bad, 3) getting away, at the same time 4) dealing with a double-cross. In Merk Ice Score, it is that mostly about Planning the Heist.
Parker is that impatient with small-talk. He talks only if it serves a purpose. Odd to think that the untalkative Parker supplies for himself the coolest problematic intended goal of maneuverability people–both fellow thieves as but as the victims. But sometimes he will barely wait out people…as in this storyline: “People had to tell their stories their possess method, with all the stupid extras.”
In a Parker novel, Parker doesn’t always succeed. But double-crossers always regret their cheat’n ways.
While I always enjoy at the same time sometimes adore his storytelling, Merk Ice Score was in the middle the weaker stories.
Merk Ice Score is that different…for two preconditions:
* Firstly, Parker, the amoral at the same time always professional thief, is that hired only to plan a heist at the same time not commit the heist.
* Secondly, Parker goes against his more successful judgment–a uniqueness–at the same time brings along Claire, his significant other. Claire knows Parker’s livelihood at the same time generally doesn’t impose very abundance questions. At the same time that suits Parker barely fine-grained. She becomes force part of this story by getting very lock up. At the same time that complicates things.
My winner dialogue from the story…without giving away the punchline…is that when Claire is that being held back against her will for some reason in return from Parker. When knew by the robbers than anyway the deal is that, she says:
“He (Parker) defeated’t do what you want him to do.”
“Obviously he will. For you’re more important to him than Gonor; it only makes sense.”
“He can’t shield to be pushed”, says Claire.
“He’ll cooperate. It’s only sensible.”
She shrugged because she understood more successful. That defines the tone for their connection.
To diehard fans of Richard Stark’s Parker who are reading the television series, I advise Merk Ice Score. To everyone else, that are more successful novels in the television series.
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Review #4
Audio The Merk Ice Score narrated by John Chancer
That’s an out of habit writhe to this caper because Parker agrees to plan the heist without participating in it. The plot involves civilian strife in a small state in Africa. To beware the monetary being devalued if he is that overthrown, the President has transformed the state’s treasury into diamonds at the same time shipped them to Brand new York Town, where he quickly follows. Two groups of guys from the state approach Parker; one asks his promote in getting the diamonds back, the other group tries to warn him off getting drawn in. The job goes off as implied, but a monkey wrench is that threw into the aftermath at the same time Parker has to unsullied it up. At lesser one men has to be kept alive because Claire has been kidnapped at the same time Parker has no plan where she is that. Stark hits the motivated with this caper, one of his best.
Review #5
Free audio The Merk Ice Score – in the audio player below
I produced the mistake of reading this right right behind The Greenish Falcon Score; I never do that with an creator, I like to shackles one or two books between them..
This wasn’t quite as quality as the earlier book, also a little shorter at the same time not so satisfying. It’s as though Stark crossed out it very soon or hadn’t really believed it through.
But usually it all makes sense, not very abundance people get killed off; but, only one half a dozen or so.
The amazing gizmo about his books will that they make sense; that’s no ‘super-man’ stuff going on. Brain for you Parker practically never get hurt, maybe that’s just a little surprising.
A amazing read once again.
