If anything, Parker's prose has become smoother and faster-paced in the later novels, and they now provide one of the quickest reads in contemporary crime writing. It is an achievement hardly equaled in the hard-boiled tradition. The quality of the prose, however, is deceptive and often leads critics to misperceive the larger qualities of the books. It is only on repeated readings that the accomplishments of Parker's writing become really evident.
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