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Comeback | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Stark
Publisher: Warner Books
Category: Book
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1392184
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0446674656
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446674652
ASIN: 0446674656
Publication Date: October 1998
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Hard as Nails May 19, 2008
P. N. Hussey (Haywards Heath, England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The master thief Parker returns in a crackling good read by noir master Richard Stark. The pacing is as swift and brutal as the main character. The hardboiled dialogue is easily as good as another great, Elmore Leonard. This is just a tremendous read. I can not get enough of Parker and can not understand why more of his books are not in print. Brilliant
 Classic Parker - Stark/Westlake, But..... June 26, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the story, have been reading Westlake since I was a kid and read The Spy in the Ointment. The Parker books by Stark were (are) more edgy and well written, good solid stories. Other reviewers here have done a much better job than I can discussing the merits of the story and the characters, etc.I found Comeback to be a bit disappointing, however - it was too easy a read. Amazon so helpfully shows the books dimensions (slightly larger than your typical paperback) and it's page count (304), but when it arrived and I opened it, I was dismayed to see that the book had huge margins and very generous line spacing - I had to doubletake and be sure I had not ordered the "large print" version! Overall, a good story, there just wasn't quite as much of it as I had expected.
pretty good March 1, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the movie Payback, based on "The Hunter", by Stark, so I went to get it but couldn't, so I picked this one instead. I enjoyed the book, and thought it was well written, but I have a couple complaints; 1. I frequently doubted the effectiveness of the crooks' plans. They hang around the immediate vicinity of the crime for days, eating in restaurants, checking in and out of motels, stealing cars, etc, all on the pretext that this is less likely to lead to capture than simply leaving town would be. 2. The climax,with Parker and Liss playing hide and seek in a dark house, dragged on way too long, and then the very end was way too abrupt, as if the author had to pee, but wanted to finish the book first. I did enjoy the book overall, though.
 New to me but now I'm hooked December 18, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although I adore the crime/detective genre I must confess that I'd never even heard of Richard Stark (and hadn't read Westlake either). But now I'm hooked. To my mind the writing - sharp, clear, direct prose that I would die for - in "Comeback" is superb and I coundn't put the book down. The characters were equally as fascinating as some of the best in Elmore Leonard, who is one of my all time favorites favorites. I'll wait until "Backflash" comes out in paperback, but in the meantime I'm ordering some of the older books. Can't wait till they arrive!
Better than Backflash! October 29, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you liked Backflash, than you'll love Comeback. Stark writes with determination. His to the point technique is truely refreshing.
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