Mark Blumenthal (blumenidiot@21stcentury.net)
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 20:05:25 -0600
I reread 'Getaway' right after I read Backflash. It seems
Parker is getting softer. We never actually see his
relationship with his wife, Lynn, but any relationship he had
with a woman since had always was treated as merely
convenient. Now he lives in a house because Claire wants to.
He even lets her aid him in research.
Near the beginning of 'Getaway' he rejects a job in Florida
because "that's where I play.". In other books he mentions he
doesn't to do jobs near where he lives when not on a job, yet
in Backflash he takes a job in NY where his house is
located.(Actually, it's said to be located near where NY and
Pennsylvania meet.) He also takes a job proposed to him by
somebody he doesn't trust who has his phone number. He always
had Joe Sheer or some other intermediary to screen calls
before.
As long as we're talking about Parker, has anybody read Gary
Disher's Wyatt series set in Australia? Wyatt is clearly
Parker downunder. Mark
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