Douglas Wolk
Cooke distills Westlake's lean prose to concentrated bursts of scruffy chiaroscuro, looming negative space, pacing-tiger tension and ice-cold violence. The highlight is the middle section, in which Parker's associates carry out a series of raids on mob assets. Each sequence evokes a different early-'60s idiom—men's magazine illustration, low-budget animation storyboard, pulp-novel cover. Cooke's glee is palpable…—The New York Times
