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Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008)

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Author Donald E. Westlake was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 12, 1933. He attended colleges in New York, but did not graduate. He wrote more than 100 novels and 5 screenplays throughout his lifetime. He also wrote under numerous pseudonyms including Richard Stark, Tucker Coe, and Samuel Holt. toon meer Almost 20 of his novels were adapted into films and he created the television series, The Father Dowling Mysteries. He is a three-time winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for The Grifters. He was also named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master in 1993. He died of a heart attack on December 31, 2008 at the age of 75. (Bowker Author Biography) Donald E. Westlake has won three Edgar Awards & was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "The Grifters". He lives in upstate New York. (Publisher Provided) toon minder
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Parker learns that the man who pressured his wife to kill him and stole his share of the loot from a job has used the money to buy his way back into the Outfit. He tracks the man down, kills him and then pressures the Outfit into paying him back. This is the first book featuring Parker, reprinted with a foreword by Donald Westlake. For the most part Parker is cool and calculating, keeping his temper and appetites under control. He lives by doing a few big, well planned and executed thefts per year and living between jobs in resort hotels. He works with people he knows and has reason to trust and brutally punishes betrayal.… (meer)
 
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ritaer | 53 andere besprekingen | Jun 15, 2024 |
It’s ok, Westlake might be leaning into Agatha with this one, unlike the other Holt books, just didn’t care about the other characters
 
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This one cab driver is given a tip in a horse race, and wins $930. He goes to pick up the winnings from his bookies place only to find him a recent corpse! Who killed the guy? And how is our hero gonna get his money?

Absolutely enthralling. Full of slam bang action, hilarious dialogue, and fast moving chase sequences. I’ve found a new bibliography to dive into.
 
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Amateria66 | 18 andere besprekingen | May 24, 2024 |
This guy, who was an actor from NYC, wakes up in a Midwestern hospital after receiving a concussion. His memory leaks from his brain like water from a sieve. Maybe he becomes a different person, but he'll never really know. He tries to get back to his home which he doesn't understand probably will never be his home again, all the while losing and gaining memories.

This book devastated me. I've seen so many people with traumatic brain injuries since I started working at the library and the behaviors and mental processes discussed in this book line up 100% with what happens to folks.

Westlake's economy of language and characterization really was a cut above. I never want to read this book again because of how much of a massive bummer it was but there's no denying the degree of craft and depth of feeling it contained.
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