Dancing Aztecs

This book just sparkles with the writer's confidence and sheer enjoyment of his work. The plot is ridiculously complicated and flawlessly worked out. The humour is low-key, sometimes nearly to the point of invisibility. And all the better for it. (like speaking of an airplane cabin attendant as bei......more

Do you like the Marx Brothers? Abbott and Costello? Zany, madcap, silly, rapid-fire scenes that leave you laughing out loud or struggling to remember all the characters involved? Yes? Then have I got a book for you! Donald Westlake (aka Richard Stark, author of the Parker series) wrote prolifically a......more

A little racist at times but since the author poked fun at all the races, including his own it was like racists making fun of each other at the UN, really nobody took them seriously...too much, too fast, too weird and too funny. For those of you who miss the hustle, the dance and the crime this is f......more

My pick for the funniest novel ever.......more

Some people have mixed feelings about Westlake’s comedies which do not include John Dortmunder. Dancing Aztecs is a more devastating comedic unraveling of a hustle gone wrong than the better known novels. Dancing Aztecs has so many scenes with slapstick elements that it seems written as more of a sc......more