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FFB: The Outfit – Richard Stark

24 Thursday Oct 2013

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Donald E. Westlake, Forgotten Books, Richard Stark

15738114I’ve read THE OUTFIT before, but did a reread because I covered the Robert Duvall film this Tuesday past. I also had this film edition of the book picked up from Barry Eregang.

The film producers stuck pretty close to the story here with only minor variations.

Parker had gotten a face lift to disguise himself from the Outfit. Word was out now, though they didn’t know what he looked like. When someone fingers him and a hit man is sent, he decides it’s time to do something about it. The Outfit is still trying to kill Parker and that must be stopped. He sets out to make them pay, getting information from the assassin.

He heads north from Florida, visiting people along the way he’d worked with in the past. He also wrote letters to others to far off the route. He asked all if they had plans to hit outfit(they all idly thought about such jobs). As a professional courtesy, they usually left such hits alone.

But the Outfit, Bronson in particular, was starting to get annoying. They needed to be taught a lesson about other pros and what they could do. Before it was over, a million had been taken.

Then Parker went after Bronson.

For more Forgotten Books, drop in on Patti Abbott on Fridays.

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Tomorrow Is The Day

20 Monday Feb 2012

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Donald E. Westlake, Hard Case crime

Tomorrow is the release date for THE COMEDY IS FINISHED, the last new book from the late Donald E. Westlake. It was a novel he set aside because of similarities to a film at the time. Max Allan Collins had the manuscript and brought it to light.

It looks like a good one.

It can be ordered HERE.

FFB: Jimmy The Kid – Donald E. Westlake

16 Thursday Feb 2012

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Donald E. Westlake, Forgotten Books

Today is Donald Westlake day on Forgotten Books in order to celebrate what may be the last new novel we get from the master, THE COMEDY IS FINISHED, due out Tuesday. I chose JIMMY THE KID, the third entry in the Dortmunder books, mainly because I haven’t read a lot in this series yet, this being, of course, one of those few. I love Westlake and have posted on quite a number of his novels under his various pen names.

Dortmunder and his gang fancy themselves criminals, but always seem to run into problems as they carry out each job. In this one, Dortmunder gets interupted by one of his men, Kelp, who wants to tell him about his latest idea for a crime caper for the guys. Dortmunder is a little pissed and, at first, is not interested. But Kelp manages to worm his way in. They do need to eat and the last couple of jobs haven’t gone well. Kelp had read a novel by some guy named Richard Stark with his character Parker and thought it might be a good blueprint for their own job. Dortmunder is still reluctant, then finally decides to listen. The name of the novel is CHILD HEIST and the ease with which Parker carried it off impressed Kelp, who thought if they did exactly the same thing, they would get some ransom money worth their time.

The novel alternates back and forth between Dortmunder and crew and chunks of the novel(a non-existent Parker novel though some people look at it as one). Things don’t go as well in real life as in a book, the gang learns. Slavishly trying to follow the book step by step, they grab a kid, twelve year old Jimmy Harrington and soon realize in many ways, he’s smarter than most of them(somewhat reminiscent of O.Henry’s THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF in my mind), not to mention a pain in the ass. Another thing they realize, real life is not like a novel.

Westlake does these comic caper novels very well, though some folks don’t care for them. I happen to and will pick up other Dortmunders as I get the chance. There’s still a fair amount of Westlake I haven’t gotten to, but am not in any hurry to finish them all. I don’t wish to run out and, other than reissues of some of his early “soft core” possibly, no new ones will be coming down the pipe. Hwe was one of the greats.

For more looks at some Westlakes, and possibly others, check out this week’s FORGOTTEN BOOKS by Patti Abbott over at her blog, Pattinase.

FFB: I Gave At The Office – Donald E. Westlake

29 Thursday Sep 2011

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I’ve been a fan of Westlake’s work for many years, but still haven’t caught up to past books. It’s an ongoing process as I come across them now and then, get a hint from some blog post, and such. I GAVE AT THE OFFICE was published in 1971 and has his trademark humor.

But it was a harder read than anything else I’ve read by him. The format is that of a newsman, Jay Fisher, recording a series of tapes telling his side of the mess that became the Ilha Pombo Affair. Sent to cover the invasion of the Caribbean island, things don’t go quite as well as planned. It was Fisher who had brought the idea to the Network(he never speaks of his bosses in any other word and he uses it quite frequently), brought to him by a couple of other fellows. He’s quickly put into a subordinate position and left out of the loop as such.

Fisher had thought it was his ticket up. Mostly he was stand-in interviewer for the Big Name. He’d meet the subject for lunch, armed with prepared questions, taping the whole interview, then the Big Name’s same questions would be inserted into the tape for broadcast over radio.

The Ilha Pombo Affair was supposed to be a U.S. financed insurgency to overthrow a dictatorship. It turned out to be a fizzle and the Network decides to “help” out a bit. I believe a similar plot was used in the film WAG THE DOG though I’ve never seen that one.

I enjoyed this one, though, as mentioned, it was harder to read than other Westlakes.

For more Forgotten books, check out PATTI Abbott\'s blog, PATTINASE.

Hellcats And Honeygirls – Lawrence Block and Donald E. Westlake

19 Sunday Dec 2010

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HELLCATS AND HONEYGIRLS comprises three novels Lawrence Block and Donald E. Westlake co-wrote early in their careers when they were struggling writers. Marketed as soft core porn, they are actually quite tame compared to even the mildest stuff around today. Sex was the primary subject and not at all graphic. That’s about it.

Within that framework though, we got three novels that showcase two mystery greats learning their craft while earning a living at the same time.

In the introduction, Block talks about his fifty year friendship with Westlake, how they met(with one instance where Westlake saw him before they actually did meet) and how they came to write three novels together and how much fun they had doing it. Living far apart, they never discussed a novel, plot, characters, or anything else. On the first, A GIRL CALLED HONEY, Block simply wrote a chapter and sent the carbon to Westlake. Westlake wrote the second and sent both carbons back to Block. They went back and forth like that until the book came to it’s logical conclusion. On the second title, SO WILLING, they reversed the order with Westlake starting the book.

Block laughingly recalls a time during the process when he’d tired of a Westlake character and killed him off. In the next chapter, Westlake retaliates by having Block’s character arrested for murder. One could tell that the pair were enjoying themselves while learning and making a living. He talks about some of the great lines(and how someone at the publisher changed a name in one that totally screwed up the rhyme in it; restored of course for this edition) that Westlake wrote also.

The first two were published as by Sheldon Lord and Alan Marshall according to Block’s introduction. But in looking on the used book sites, it says simply Sheldon Lord for the first. Fantastic Fiction gives that name as a shared pseudonym between the two writers. Who knoes? I’ll go with Block’s remembrance.

The third novel, SIN HELLCAT(not their title but Block didn’t remember the original), is a bit different. It’s my favorite of the three and seems to be Block’s as well. Told in the first person, it chronicles the rise of a young man in the world of advertising when he reconnects with a college girl friend he hadn’t seen in ten years and the ensuing mess they fall into. Each chapter contains a flashback recounting his various relationships through the years from Jodi, the college sweetheart, to Helen, the harridan he married in the mistaken “American Dream.” Sold to a different publisher from the first two, the same byline was put on the manuscript but ended up as by Andrew Shaw.

Over the last few years, I’d become aware of the writers’ early novels, both together and separately, with more on those early efforts coming out all the time, but prices are fairly substantial on the used book sites I understand. So when this Subterranean Press edition became available, I jumped on it.

Worth the price. The book was a lot of fun.

Donald Westlake and Curt Clark

25 Monday May 2009

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Donald Westlake is known primarily for his crime fiction, the humorous Dortmunder series, the Parker books under his Richard Stark name, not to mention a host of other titles. But he dabbled occasionally in science fiction, at least early in his career. TOMORROW’S CRIMES gathers all those stories under one cover, nine shorts and one novel titled ANARCHAOS.
anarchaos
I’ve not read the stories, but I imagine there’s a crime element in them since this novel has a mystery as its central theme.

Rolf Malone had spent seven years in prison for manslaughter. It seems he has a violent temper. His brother Gar is a businessman assigned to the planet Anarchaos and a job had been arranged for Rolf as his assistant when he finishes his prison term.

On the day of his release, Rolf is informed that his brother has been killed. Since travel arrangements had already been set up and paid for, he decides he’s going to the planet and find out exactly what happened to his brother and who was responsible.

Anarchaos is a strange world. It circles a red giant, it’s day the same length as it’s year. The same face is always toward the sun, known to the colonists as Hell. The colony, five cities, lives on that face, the back side too cold and inhospitable for life.
The planet has no government, no police, owned by the corporations that run the mines. Valuable minerals and furs are its only exports.

Rolf thinks he’s a tough man. After all, he’d been in prison for killing someone. He’s heard the stories, but believes he can handle anything.

The last thing he’s told before disembarking from the shuttle, along with two other passengers, is that, over the last ten years, 72% of off-world visitors have disappeared, presumed murdered. Thatr means only one of the three will make it off the planet.

In his arrogance, Rolf believes he will be that one. His weapons are promptly confiscated.

Anarchaos proceeds, via that trite old saying, to chew him up and spit him out. Sold into slavery to work the mines, Rolf sinks into a funk as time passes, more than he realizes, that he only snaps out of when one hand is amputated because of an infection.

He escapes, is rescued by an old trapper, who decides he now has his own slave.

Everybody wants a piece of Rolf Malone and he doesn’t know why. He escapes once more, intent now only on getting to a spaceport and returning to Earth. Not that easy.
Every time he makes a move, someone else grabs him and questions him about his brother.

Slowly, he starts to learn what he came to Anarchaos to discover. Who killed his brother and why it was done. The people responsible want some knowledge from him. something his brother found and told him all about. Only it never happened.

I enjoyed this book and it’s resolution. I kept thinking I knew where it was headed. Partially right, but not completely. I think I need to get the collection of stories and read more science fiction from the grandmaster of mystery fiction.

Donald Westlake and Tucker Coe

28 Wednesday Jan 2009

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Donald E. Westlake, mystery, Tucker Coe

The death of Donald Westlake on New Year’s Eve affected a great many people throughout the world. 2008 was an especially bad year for writers it seemed to me. We lost a number of fine authors such as John Mortimer, Michael Crichton, Arthur C. Clarke, George MacDonald Fraser, and William F, Buckley(loved Blackford Oakes). Those are the ones that come to mind. There were others that I either weren’t familiar with or hadn’t read.

All had their mourners.

But none seemed to have the effect of Westlake’s passing. A lot of tributes were posted on various blogs to the man and his work, all more eloquent than anything I can say.

I was a fan of his work, more so the serious stuff than the comic Dortmunder novels, though anything with his name on was an assurance of a good read. I really liked the Parker novels(I’ve read all but one). As prolific as he was, it seems as if I’ve barely touched on his work and have a lot of catching up to do. Would that I was falling farther behind. In the different tributes, I learned of The Ax, which I promptly found and devoured.

And then I learned of the writer known as Tucker Coe. I’d never heard of him let alone read any of his books. So the fact that he was Donald Westlake was new as well. The praise for those five Tobin novels showed up all over the place and I had to go find them as soon as possible. A fault of mine. When I decide I want a book, I have no patience to wait. I need it right away.

I finished the fifth one last night(that makes six Westlakes this month) and wanted to put down a few thoughts on them.



Mitchell Tobin is a wounded man. Not physically, but inside. In six months, he hasn’t worked or left the house except in the direst circumstances. His wife works two part time jobs to supplement their savings.

Mitch had committed an unpardonable sin, in his mind anyway. He’d had an four year long affair with the wife of a man he’d arrested and put away for burglary. The only time he could meet her and keep it secret was on the job. His partner had always covered for him.

On the fateful night, his partner was making a routine arrest while he was with the woman and things went wrong. His partner was shot to death and, while the police were wondering where he was, he was still with the mistress. He was fired for incompetence and Mitch lost most of his friends over it. His wife was the only one who forgave him. Including himself.

He doesn’t want to face the world, so he decides to build a brick wall in the back yard, completely enclosing it, making access available only through the house, both literally and figuratively closing himself off from the rest of the world.

Hos wife recognizes that he needs to get out, both for his mental well being and their financial stability.

KINDS OF LOVE, KINDS OF DEATH

When a mobster comes with an offer of a “legitimate” job, finding the murderer of his mistress. strictly legitimate, you can turn the murderer over to the law for prosecution, I just want him found, she presses him to take it. There is $5000 dollars in it. At first refusing, reluctantly he finally does.

MURDER AMONG CHILDREN

An eighteen year old second cousin, daughter of a relative he hadn’t seen since their childhood seeks Mitch’s help. She and friends had opened a coffee house and were being harassed by a police officer. She thinks he wants a payoff and want Tobin to be there on his next visit to see if that’s what he wants.

At first, he declines, even when her mother comes by, preferring to work on his wall. But his wife keeps pressing and he relents, setting up a time for a meeting. No sooner does he arrive at the restaurant, than his cousin comes stumbling downstairs, bloody with a knife in her hand. Her boyfriend and a hooker are dead in the apartment, knifed apparently by her.

Tobin doesn’t buy it.

WAX APPLE

In this one, Tobin is hired by the director of a halfway house for ex-mental patients(yes, I caught the irony here). Someone is pulling pranks in the house that cause injury to residents. Nothing serious, but as they are trying to make that last step back into normal society, they don’t need this sort of stuff.

Tobin goes in undercover as a newly released patient beginning his six month stay there. He immediately gets caught in one of the pranks and suffers a broken arm. When he gets a note of apology from the prankster, that deepens the mystery.

First night there, he meets a resident named Dewey. He doesn’t see him again and no one seems to know who he might be, though one resident remembers meeting him her first night there, assuming he’d left the facility shortly thereafter, his time over.

Who is Dewey? Could he be the prankster? When he finally runs him down, finding his hiding place, he turns out to be a poor man who wasn’t ready to face the world despite what the doctors said and had been hiding out for years, coming out only at night. In the ensuing pursuit Dewey is killed by one of the booby traps.

Now it’s murder and Tobin’s secret is out. He’s not a resident.

I buzzed through the first three very quickly. Nice tight mysteries. Then i took a break with a few other novels before getting back to the series.

A JADE IN ARIES

By the fourth book, Tobin has started digging out his basement, the idea to enlarge and build rooms. This is simply to keep him occupied on rainy days when he couldn’t work outside on the wall. It’s all make-work anyway to keep him from having to face the world. A couple of years have gone by and Mitch still prefers not to face the world on a regular basis.

A gay man shows up and makes a unique offer. His partner has been murdered and he wants Tobin’s advice on how to find the criminal himself. He’d narrowed it down to six people and planned to use astrology to find the culprit. What he needed was the esiest way to find out the exact time of each suspect’s birth. He had the dates, but needed the times for his forecasts.

Though leery of astrology, Mitch makes a quick phone call to a friend, gives him the names and dates, then gives the man the number to call himself in a couple of days for the information. He thought that would be the end of it.

The next day, it’s all over the news about the man throwing himself off the roof of his business in an apparent suicide attempt. He crashed through the roof of a shed in back full of bolts of cloth and merely had a lot of broken bones, as well as in a coma.

Tobin knows right away it was no suicide, but still doesn’t plan to get involved, even when the man regains consciousness, declaring it was no suicide. The cop investigating doesn’t want to hear it, preferring to believe what he wants. Once again, the wife prods Tobin into getting the case. Before it’s over, one of the six suspects is murdered.

In the first four books, Tobin had always had to proceed carefully in his investigations. He doesn’t have a PI license and it’s a federal offense to function without one. The cop in charge starts giving him a hard time and, in self defense, he goes to one of the few cop friends he has left for help in getting a PI permit.

I’m not sure whether it was me or the book, but this one wasn’t one of those grab you by the throat and won’t let go until you finish reading it. I had no trouble putting it down any number of times and, though only a couple of hundred pages, it took four days to get through. I like the mystery so I can only put it down to me. Astrology was a strong part of the story and I have never believed or understood any of it.

DON’T LIE TO ME

By this one, Mitchell Tobin’s healing was well under way. He’s taken a job as a night watchman at a museum. Things had gone smoothly for the three weeks he’d worked there. This night was different. Two things interfered.

First, the woman with which he’d had the four year affair, and who he hadn’t seen in three years since that terrible night, shows up at the job seeking his help. Her husband was out and wanted to go straight, but was being pressured by a gang to help out on a job. She’s telling him this while making his rounds and they stumble across the second problem: a naked dead man lying in one of the rooms. It hadn’t been there a half hour before and all the doors were locked.

He lies to the police, omitting the woman from his story, but word gets out. Now he’s juggling a criminal gang who’s after him for interfering in their business, trying to keep the woman secret because that would only cloud the investigation of the dead man and the forgeries that turn up and have to be related to the murder.

These five novels were very much a part of their time(1966-1972). In Murder Among Children, the coffee house was a “beatnik” joint, probably the last days of such establishments, and the notions Tobin has of the cause of homosexuality in A Jade In Aries seem antiquated by today’s standards.

Westlake, in an interview I read somewhere, said as he was writing the fifth book, he knew it would be the last with Mitchell Tobin. The healing was well underway and he apparently had no desire to write just a regulation PI novel. Too bad, It would have been interesting to see a functioning private eye taking cases.

Five fine mysteries well worth tracking down if one hasn’t read them

The Ax Donald E. Westlake

09 Friday Jan 2009

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Donald Westlake’s death hit the crime story community hard, both writers and readers alike.

My favorites of his were the Parker novels. I actually came late to them. You can thank Mel Gibson’s remake of The Hunter for that(I like Lee Marvin better in the role). Mysterious Press had a brief run publishing the early volumes and the new ones he was writing. When they stopped reissuing the early novels, I started looking for all those between and have managed to find reasonably priced copies of all but two. the Plunder Squad I read from my local library and Butcher’s Moon is just completely out of my price range.

The Ax was one I hadn’t read and found on Amazon at a very reasonable price. They were offering a used book themselves, instead of brokering a used dealer, and I got a hardcover(Mysterious Press edition) for four bucks, no shipping & handling. An ex-library copy, it was almost like new. Well pleased with it.

Burke Devore had been unemployed for two years and was starting to feel desperate. In an era of downsizing, he’d lost his middle management job simply because of cutbacks and transferring his division to a Canadian plant. In his early fifties, he sent out resumes for every job for which he was qualified, went on a few job interviews, but never hears anything back.

It’s starting to cause problems with his wife and there’s a subplot with his sixteen year old son stealing software for his computer. His daughter is in college.

When he reads about one man’s success in the exact type of job he once held, he devises a unique plan to change the status quo. He takes out an ad in trade publications purporting to be from a company soliciting resumes for his type of job. When they come to a P.O. box he’d set up, he goes through and winnows them down to six that would be serious competition and sets out to “eliminate” them first before he gets rid of the working man.

He starts with an old Luger his father brought back from WWII, uses his car on one, and then has to try other means when the police compare bullets and realize they are tied together.

All the while Devore is torn by what he’s doing. Am I becoming a serial killer? He justifies it all by rationalizing that’s he just doing what’s necessary to provide for and protect his family.

Westlake’s skill turns Devore into a sympathetic character and makes one start to pull for the man despite his murderous impulses. You wonder if he can pull off this plan without getting caught.

I can myself empathize with Devore. I’ve had some of the same thoughts he’s having(not the homicidal ones though). I’ve been through what’s happening to him in my life. His business was paper, mine was textiles, and I was downsized three times in my working life. The first company I worked for twenty-eight years, the second two and a half, the third three.

I got all the classes about preparing resumes, all the polite platitudes from company management. I went to job fairs, I sent out resumes almost every day, went on a few job interviews, thought I might have a job every now and then, and finally having to take a step down just to be working.

There was just too many people in my boat looking for work. They spoke of retraining, but I never felt that would work. I thought like Devore did on the subject. You apply for a job and a dozen guys with years of experience and one with a fresh certificate apply for a job. Who do you think they’ll hire?

It’s happening again in this new economy. On TV the other day, they said unemployment in my county(9.3%) was the highest in the state and expected to get worse. It makes me glad I’m retired.

So yes, I understand what Devore was going through. I don’t think his solution would have ever appealed to a normal person though. That’s what makes this book such an interesting read.It’s well worth looking for if you haven’t read it.

I’ve also got the five Tucker Coes, of which I didn’t know about until I read on several blogs, speeding my way through the mails.

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