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by Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake) Going into Las Vegas, Alan Grofield puts a nickel into a slot machine...just paying his dues to the city...he got three lemons, and his payoff was fourteen nickels. Such was going to be his luck on this trip, and lemons never lie. He was here to listen to Alan Meyers' plans for a robbery, but the man is a stranger to him, and he has bad feelings about it from the start. Meyer's plan to rob a brewery payroll includes killing the guards, and Grofield's own moral code doesn't allow unnecessary killing, so he backs out of the caper. As a result, everyone else backs out too, and Meyers vows revenge on Grofield.You just don't walk out on Meyers. Grofield is usually in tandem with Parker in Stark novels...a couple of our favorite bad guys. Grofield is an actor who owns a barn that has been converted to a theater, and staging summer theater just has to be subsidized financially...so, Grofield is a part time robber. Though he has been writing novels for many years under both names, I only recently discovered Donald Westlake/Richard Stark, and he has become one of my favorite authors. His characters are definitely in a class of their own. They are hardened criminals; cold, calculating and sometimes mean, and should be in jail, but they have such compelling personalities, and a little bit morality and human decency. They are bad guys that are likable and funny, and you can't help being in their cheering section. Lemons Never Lie is the reprint of an older novel for the new Hard Case Crime series that was kicked off with Stephen King's Colorado Kid. This is a series that you will want to follow for the best in short, but strong and satisfying crime fiction, and you should prepare to read this very entertaining book in one sitting. It's that good. |
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Lemons Never Lie