The Seventh, Donald E. Westlake
The Seventh, Donald E. Westlake
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The Seventh

Author: Donald E. Westlake

Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne

Unabridged: 4 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2011

Synopsis

The robbery was a piece of cake. The getaway was clean. And seven men were safely holed up in different places while Parker held all the cash. But somehow the sweet heist of a college football game turns sour, Parker’s woman is murdered, and the take is stolen. Now Parker’s looking for the lowlife who did him dirty, while the cops are looking for seven clever thieves—and Parker must outrun them all. When hunters and hunted meet, some win, some lose.

About Donald E. Westlake

Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008) was a three-time Edward Award winner and the author of more than 100 novels and nonfiction books. In 1993, the Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master, the highest honor bestowed by the society.

About Stephen R. Thorne

Stephen R. Thorne, winner of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration, is a professional actor and member of the resident acting company at Providence’s esteemed Trinity Repertory Company, where he has played Hamlet, Henry V, and Tom Joad.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard

Seven books into the series, the Parker books have no business being this good. The stories are so simple that one would expect them to be too formulaic and repetitive. But with plot supermaster Richard Stark at the helm, this is not the case. He's always so effortlessly creative when it comes to we......more

Goodreads review by Kemper

When Parker goes out for beer and smokes after being shacked up with a woman for a couple of days he’s only gone for ten minutes. But when he gets back, he finds her dead with a sword (Yes, a freaking sword.) rammed through her. Even worse, the money Parker was holding after the robbery of the ticke......more

Goodreads review by Dave

The Seventh was originally called The Split. Both titles refer to the same thing. Seven people pull off a heist, and they are supposed to each get a split, a seventh of the total take. Though it is also probably intentionally named this because this is Stark’s seventh Parker book, too. This is the t......more

Quotes

“Stark’s novel is a classic noir crime thriller (replete with complex double-crosses within double-crosses)…[A] thrilling game of cat and mouse.” Publishers Weekly

“I wouldn’t care to speculate about what it is in [Stark’s] psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written.” Terry Teachout, New York Times bestselling author

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