Rare Coin Score [Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

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• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: BOOKS ON TAPE, INC. (1998)
• ISBN-10: 0736683836
• ISBN-13: 978-0736683838
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,880,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a new woman for parker and some interesting characters..., June 22, 2010

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the end (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Rare Coin Score: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels) (Paperback)

so parker is after... well the title says it... anyway he's convinced to do the job by a weenie of a man coin collector who is in love with his dead brother's wife. the wife likes parker and the feeling is mutual. the link between them is unique as parker swore off keeping a woman for more than a short time after his wife shot him in the first novel. the heist goes off ok but some guy causes problems right at the end... all of parker's thief friends in this one do not get along. it's a clashing group and everyone is planning to mess over the next guy... really cool method to steal the coins and a dry, harsh ending with parker getting what he wants and then some.

also, very refreshing if you've ever read a book in which the author disgustingly over describes everything; two pages to describe a room, three to describe someones feelings, a chapter to describe a single conversation about some unnessecary story, examples are anne rice (interview with the vampire, queen of the damned, etc.) and robert ludlum (the bourne identity, ultimatum, etc.). good writers, but five hundred pages of fluff make you want a more readable two hundred page story that you may even have the patience to re-read eventually. this is that kind of writing, constantly gripping, no boredom, and no non-sense. not to say that the parker novels are devoid of description but that you don't get bored wondering if the author was just trying to make his book bigger by cramming in more information about what a character was thinking, wearing, feeling, seeing, what he had for dinner the night before, what color hair his mother had, where he went to high school, rather than just what is pertinent to the immediate story. in the jacket of one of the books is a quote by someone that talks about how parker is the non hero. not the anti-hero (criminal with a good heart or something) and certainly not the hero, i thought this was very accurate, parker is just a bad guy. he is out to make money and anyone who gets in his way is so much chaff to be discarded.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Rare Book & A Rare Treat, October 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Rare Coin Score (Paperback)

... It even has an excellent Robert E. McGinnis cover painting. The story inside the book, of course, is just as excellent. Just what I've come to expect from Donald E. Westlake, regardless of whatever pen name he chooses to write under. Parker is a lean, mean, hardboiled machine as always, taking no prisoners and no 'crud'. Readers of the newer "Stark" novels might also be interested to know that this is the book where Parker meets his lady friend Clair, who in this 1967 version, is more of a femm fatale than she is in the present day. Bottom line: If you can find THE RARE COIN SCORE, grab it and read it!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Typical Parker, April 29, 2000

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Dan Norris (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Rare Coin Score (Hardcover)

Parker ends up working with amateurs and a shaky ex-con as he plans the robbery of a coin convention. Parker does pick up a new love interest in Claire. The heist goes sour with a double-cross and it is up to Parker to improvise the escape. Same Parker series format and a quick read. If new to the Parker series start with the Hunter/Payback/Point Blank book.