Flashfire: a Parker novel
Between Parker & rsquo;s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital & mdash;the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. But cash isn & rsquo;t everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and a collection of pricele…
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- Full title :Flashfire : a Parker novel / Richard Stark ; with a new foreword by Terry Teachout.
Summary
Between Parker & rsquo;s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital & mdash;the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. But cash isn & rsquo;t everything: Flashfire and Firebreak find Parker going after, respectively, a fortune in jewels and a collection of priceless paintings. In Flashfire, Parker & rsquo;s in West Palm Beach, competing with a crew that has an unhealthy l.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 278 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780226770642, 0226770648, 1283242354, 9781283242356, 9786613242358, 6613242357
- oclc:ocn754715008
- LC Classification:PS3573.E9
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
Table of Contents
Foreword; Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four
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