There's no reason anybody has to like Parker, even though
some of us (apparently, a lot of us) think he is one of the
great characters in crime fiction. If it doesn't appeal,
well, to the flames with it.
By the way, I just reread _The Score_, which is a magnificent
book, both technically and thematically. A perfect book,
really.
What's not in question is Westlake's stature as one of the
greatest crime writers in history, as well as one of the most
versatile.
Sometimes we get so hung up on the classics that we don't
realize that there are masters writing right now who are
fully up to the standards of Chandler & Co., and are even
pushing the standards higher -- and not by reiterating old
formulas either.
Alex Cockburn wrote that "the golden age is in us", and this
is true in crime fiction as in everything else.
Best,
MrT
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