Lemons Never Lie (Hard Case Crime (Mass Market Paperback))
When he's not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money, and jobs have been thin lately, which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers' plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York....
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When he's not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money, and jobs have been thin lately, which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers' plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York.
Unfortunately, Myers' plan is insane, so Grofield walks out on him. Myers isn't a man you walk out on, and his retribution culminates in an act of unforgivable brutality. That's when Grofield decides to show him what a disciple of Parker is capable of.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780843955941 (0843955945)
ASIN: 0843955945
Publish date: 2006-07-04
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Pages no: 221
Edition language: English
We open to stage actor and sometimes bank robber, Grofield, performing his ritual nickel sacrifice upon his arrival in Las Vegas. When the game plan meeting turns out to be some sort of amateur hour pitch featuring glossy photos and poor planning, Grofield bows out. And, well, if that was the end of...
workaday mp3There is a time and place for most things but Fridays in particular I love me some raw trash and this week's offering is an excellent hard pulp featuring Myers the Psychopath.
Things get off to a bad start. Through force of habit, whenever in Las Vegas, Grofield, summer stock theater owner and actor (live theater thank you, film acting is for mannequins--“an actor who stepped before a camera was in the process of rotting his own talent,”) and professional thief, drops a n...
Theatre owner and part-time hood Alan Grofield goes to Las Vegas for job. Once he figures out the guy running things is crazy and the job is a long shot at best, he backs out, along with another crook, Dan Leach. Only Myer, the guy running things, is crazy. He ambushes Grofield and Leach, then ma...
Marketed as a kind of spinoff of the Parker series (really he's only mentioned once) this is a weaker Stark (or Westlake) offering. Fun while it lasted, but pretty forgettable.
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) by Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake), now listed on BookLikes)