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Title: Superior Parker
Review: Good stuff. Definitely one of Parker's better efforts. His writing is pared to the bone by now, as spare as the desert. Nothing new thematically (i.e., a man's quest for honorable behavior in a hard world), but brought off with terse vigor. Much of it borders on parody (e.g., the occasionally almost caricatured laconic/iconic dialogue, like Gary Cooper on quaaludes), but the conviction of Parker's writing pulls it off.
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