European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Perchance to dream Robert b. Parker s sequel to Raymond chandlery so the big sleep . Put Nain s sons 271 pp., $19.95dick Lighte los Angeles times. Grew up wanting to be Raymond Chandler and now in a sense i am Quot novelist Robert a Parker once said. It. Had just been announced that Parker y arguably the a nest popular private eve writer alive was going to Complete a novel that , the master of the game had been  with before his death. Parker went on to it by a it is an occasion for reviewers and Grilies to Point out my failure a Well he a no  a the 1989 publication of that Book a poodle Springs Quot proved Parker to be something of a clairvoyant critics reported that he was nov can Dler. But that did t seem to matter very much. The la weft As Ente Muning. Readers liked it. Parker had an additional motivating Force How Ever a a reported $1 million plus Advance for doing the Job on a poodle  and it is Likely that this added incentive is what prompted him to return once More to the Chandler a full. This time unfortunately the Well was dry. No More incomplete novels. And so we have a yarn Ilia is described on us Coyer As a Robert b. Par Kerbs sequel to Raymond Chandlers a the big  this identification might be to different Robert b. Parker a follow up in t up to Raymond chandlery a standards. Tate it from chandlery a Man highly regarded be. Quel a Farewell my  More Likely it serves the purpose of linking the names of both novelists in the same Way they were linked on the a a poodle cover. A further  n go Lien in g the similarity to that Quot collaborative Effort Parker has salted his a a dream with snippets from  but this gimmick does his f Jet Ion no. Favor. Ithe Chandler chapters in a poodle Springs Quot Stitten when the author was at the end of his \. String were far from his Best to say that Parker s continuation was seamless was not precisely a compliment. A sleep a on the other hand is an example of. Chandler in his prime the passages quoted Are so perfectly wrought that they make Parker a pros scent pedestrian Saintf slap Dailis.  of a dream a for sex Arnople Eon Sisis of most of the final chapter of a a sleep a in a a eluding the famous lines a what did it matter a where you Lay once you were dead in a. Dirty sump or in a Marble Tower on Lori of a High Hill. A a you were dead you were sleeping the big. Sleep you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same As wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep not caring about the nastiness of How you did or w Here you fell of fake if Robert a. Parker follows with an uncluttered  work in which Marlowe is hired to locate Carmen Stern Wood a murderous nymphomaniac who has gone missing from the sanitarium where she was deposited just after the finale of  the detective goes about his task with determination pausing to make sonic wisecracks bed Down Carmen s jaded older sister something he purposely avoided in a a Slee Ojiri forces with Eddie Mars the suave mobster who tried to have him killed in the earlier Book and in relatively Short order a. This is. A remarkably Brief novel a lie accomplishes his purpose. A there is Only one Dogleg in the plot leading Marlowe to. An investigation of a. Land and water scam straight out of the  Chinatown Parker adds nothing to the old characters and his new ones arc fairly familiar a the brooding Small town cops the evil Psychia. Trist the Tough talking but Good a carted elderly woman. Who runs a Small newspaper. It s not a particularly inspired or Clever concoction. Every Page of this strange Little Book makes you wonder Why a mystery novelist justifiably famous in his of n right would go to such lengths to highlight the Gulf separating him from his a know edged idol. Quot a a a a. A then a thought occurs maybe he Felt so guilty about poaching on the idols preserves that he bungled the Job on purpose to make sure he  get away with it. A a a. A the Book is available at Slajs and stapes Book scores reviews Hedrick Smith the new russians by Hedrick Smith random House 621 pp., $24.95 a a the new russians was published last year when things were still going swimmingly with Mikhail Gorbachev be fore Eduar Shevardnadze a resignation before the stunning reversion to a Kremlin hard line in the Baltic countries. 1 inv lower it is a tribute to the scope and brilliance of this Book thai it seems even More relevant now in. A n c c i i t e -1 a de n cd a p i e r s p re be n t i no t lie options open to gmacfim7 to it the old guard and to the democratic Roku Tivvis author Hedrick Smith Clicc Kivch predicts what is happening How. A a there it is no current writer in the English language who comes close to this former new York times correspondent in Moscow and now persistent recorder of  scene on film for Tbs television in dissecting the Complex trends which have brought the soviet. Union to its present moment. This Book about the new russians a he wrote his  14 years ago a is Rich in exploring the human factors that arc at the heart of history. As a reporter Smiths pen constantly captured vignettes and phrases from the key players of the contemporary soviet drama which make the Book highly readable to the Lay Antt is the test written and most convincing interpretation of the mysterious soviet pm Pirir in print Quot a today. A Everett Bauman United press International to old fire by Dean Koontz . Putnam s son41, 584 pp., $21.95. W Hile some fans of Dean r.  find a cold Fite Quot a. Relatively lame and Low key after the truly bizarre a the bad place Quot this latest offering is fully As gripping in its own Way. What is it that prompts Jim Kon heart a mild mannered schoolteacher to Fly from his Home in Southern California to Portland -ore., just in tiny pfc to save a Young boy from a Drunken Driver what Drew him to that particular Street adjoining that particular school at that particular time the Rescue piques the curiosity of reporter Holly Thorne because it appears he has been involved in six such rescues in six far Flung cities in the past three months Koontz has become adept at. Holding out the Promise that something very Creepy is lurking around the next Corner and sure enough it  g. Campbell. A. I los Angeles times a 1 the Andy Warhol diaries edited by Pat hacked Warner 768 pp., $19.95 meticulous. To the end. That s w hat Andy Warhol w As each morning from .1976 until he died the late pop artist would Call up his diarist to relate the events of the previous Day. His detailed journals would list such mundane items As the Price of a cab fare to a dinner party. They also would reveal w hat Warhol thought about fellow pioneering artists Jasper Johns Andrew Wyeth Julian Schnable and others. When Warhol checked into a new York Hospital in 1987 for what he thought was a routine operation a Hospital aide recalls the artist gave his Blue Cross health insurance numbers from memory warhold died after the operation and the diary a a _ he left behind provides us with a better understanding of the Man. Through these pages Warhol emerges ask shy eccentric generous often funny and sometimes bizarre individual. A a. Frank t. Csongei United press International Aji books Are or Wili be available at stars stripes bookstores. Page 8 c sunday february 1?. 1991