The great thing that Cooke really achieves with this story is the intensity and force of his main character. You saw some of that in The Hunter but that longer story had its own ebb and flow. This short story doesn’t have the time to ebb at all. The momentum in The Man With The Getaway Face begins with the subtle action on the first page, a man getting his bandages taken off, and builds with each page up to the heist and Parker’s smoldering drive constantly driving the story forward.
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