Librarian Tim recommends: Dirty Money by Richard Stark (M Stark, New Books)

When we last saw the master criminal Parker, he and his associates had seen their armored car heist in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts go spectacularly wrong. With one co-conspirator in the clink, and the money too hot to handle, Parker had to stash it in an abandoned church with hopes of going back for it later. When he hears that the jailed robber has busted out, killing a US Marshall in the process, he knows it's now or never to get the money. He hooks back up with the cons from the scam, never knowing who to trust and always watching out for the double cross. Can Parker get the money with every cop in three states on the lookout? Can he launder the money to make a profit when the authorities have all the serial numbers? Richard Stark is the pseudonym crime writer Donald Westlake uses when he wants to write hard boiled crime fiction in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. It's tough guy crime noir at its finest and highly recommended.

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