FIREBREAK

Parker isn't just hard-boiled; he's injected with cement and frozen into stone. This is a guy who cusses out some poor sucker who offers him a ride. People who cross him do not enjoy a long life thereafter. Yet this is just one of a successful series of books with famous movie spin-offs that have proceeded from the pen of Donald E. Westlake (a.k.a. Stark) over the past forty years. As for the reader, few could present the characters and mayhem with greater élan than Michael Kramer. He fits the book and its characters like a glove, blustering one moment, cold as dry ice the next. Grab a seat and feel the chill. D.R.W. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 02/ JAN 03]