The Black Ice Score

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Review #1

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The Black Ice Score (1968) starts to humanize Parker, Richard Stark’s (that is, Donald Westlake’s) amoral anti-hero, in at least a small way. To this point in the series, Parker was totally self-centered, with his own survival and prosperity being his only concerns. Other people were valuable only in how they could help Parker achieve his goals.

But in Black Ice Score, Parker actually goes out of his way to save Claire, the woman he had taken up with in a previous book, The Rare Coin Score, and who has now become more or less a part of his life. Before Claire, there’s little doubt no woman would have been worth the risks he undertakes for her here. So I guess she must be something special…

The plot itself has to do with Parker being engaged as a kind of expert consultant in robbery planned by a group of black Africans whose president has run off with their country’s wealth in the form of diamonds, which they plan to steal back. This is a bit unusual for a Parker caper novel in that Parker isn’t directly involved in the heist, he’s just a (well) paid consultant to the actual thieves.

As usual, there are some chapters narrated from the perspective of characters other than Parker, which serve to broaden the book’s frame of reference on both the proceedings and on Parker himself. It is an approach Stark has used before and it works well here again. I especially like the fallibility and misunderstandings that clutter this caper, as they realistically would in such a complex undertaking.

While no masterpiece, Black Ice Score is still very readable and an interesting entry in the Parker chronicles if only for what it says about the protagonist’s evolving character.

Review #2

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This is a standard review for the University of Chicago published Parker series by Richard Stark. Overall the quality of the stories is very high. They are tightly plotted with dialogue fitted to the voices of the different characters. The descriptions of places and objects are brief but clear and connected to the characters’ perceptions.

Now the negatives: These stories average about $9.99, and I expect that some editing must have been done to warrant so high a price for what are rather short novels. There are egregious editing errors in every book in the series, some with only a few, most noticeably the first four books in the series. The rest have over a dozen spelling and grammar errors that were no doubt due to the OCR scanning process on the original books/manuscripts. The software just can’t identify certain words and doesn’t always fix hyphenated words back to whole words. Having the choice all over again, I would look for the paper backs and read those. The books just aren’t worth the $9.99 average price.

Review #3

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Review #4

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There’s an unusual twist to this caper because Parker agrees to plan the heist without participating in it. The plot involves civil strife in a small country in Africa. To avoid the currency being devalued if he is overthrown, the President has converted the country’s treasury into diamonds and shipped them to New York City, where he quickly follows. Two groups of men from the country approach Parker; one asks his help in getting the diamonds back, the other group tries to warn him off getting involved. The job goes off as planned, but a monkey wrench is thrown into the aftermath and Parker has to clean it up. At least one man has to be kept alive because Claire has been kidnapped and Parker has no idea where she is. Stark hits the target with this caper, one of his best.

Review #5

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I made the mistake of reading this right after The Green Eagle Score; I never do that with an author, I like to put one or two books between them..
This wasn’t quite as good as the earlier book, also a bit shorter and not so satisfying. It’s as though Stark wrote it too soon or hadn’t really thought it through.
But as usual it all makes sense, not too many people get knocked off; well, only half a dozen or so.
The great thing about his books is that they make sense; there’s no ‘super-man’ stuff going on. Mind you Parker almost never get hurt, maybe that’s a little surprising.
A great read once again.

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