Potshot: A Spencer Novel (Spenser Novels)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553712470 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 107 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Poor finish" according to IKas. I do like the characters in this book and the way they are developed. I also enjoy that he brought back several characters from previous novels. It is the finish that I'm hung up on. This story does not resolve itself. I'm not someone who has to have every t crossed and every i dotted but too much is left to speculation here.. Greggorio! said A SURPRISINGLY DEEP SOLUTION.. This novel opens with a very attractive lady hiring our man Spenser to track down the man who murdered her husband. She claims he was killed by a group of local thugs known as THE DELL who intimidate, threaten and demand protection money from local businesses and residents who comprise the town of Potshot. The initial meeting between Spenser and his new client is less than overwhelming. The superficial display of loss and mourning put on by Mary Lou fails to impress either Spenser or the reader. It does not take long for the shining light of righteousness to be fixed on the grieving widow which exposes. Amazon Customer said "Magnificent Seven" on steroids!. Don't usually bother to rate books as it is such an individual taste, but had so much fun with this one I had to share. If you follow the Spenser series, all of his "thug" accomplices: his sidekick Hawk, his go-to guy in Boston Vinnie, his LA recruits Chollo and Bobby Horse, Tedy Sapp - a gay thug, for heaven's sake! - and undersized Bernard J Fortuno from Las Vegas have all gathered in a cowtown outside the Sawtooth Mountains to rid the place of "other" thugs, who are holding the town hostage. Counting Spenser, that's 7 - against the usual "Magnificent Seven" on steroids! Don't usually bother to rate books as it is such an individual taste, but had so much fun with this one I had to share. If you follow the Spenser series, all of his "thug" accomplices: his sidekick Hawk, his go-to guy in Boston Vinnie, his LA recruits Chollo and Bobby Horse, Tedy Sapp - a gay thug, for heaven's sake! - and undersized Bernard J Fortuno from Las Vegas have all gathered in a cowtown outside the Sawtooth Mountains to rid the place of "other" thugs, who are holding the town hostage. Counting Spenser, that's 7 - against the usual 30 to "Magnificent Seven" on steroids! Amazon Customer Don't usually bother to rate books as it is such an individual taste, but had so much fun with this one I had to share. If you follow the Spenser series, all of his "thug" accomplices: his sidekick Hawk, his go-to guy in Boston Vinnie, his LA recruits Chollo and Bobby Horse, Tedy Sapp - a gay thug, for heaven's sake! - and undersized Bernard J Fortuno from Las Vegas have all gathered in a cowtown outside the Sawtooth Mountains to rid the place of "other" thugs, who are holding the town hostage. Counting Spenser, that's 7 - against the usual 30 to 40 guys. Parker is very careful to bring his characters . 0 guys. Parker is very careful to bring his characters . 0 to "Magnificent Seven" on steroids! Amazon Customer Don't usually bother to rate books as it is such an individual taste, but had so much fun with this one I had to share. If you follow the Spenser series, all of his "thug" accomplices: his sidekick Hawk, his go-to guy in Boston Vinnie, his LA recruits Chollo and Bobby Horse, Tedy Sapp - a gay thug, for heaven's sake! - and undersized Bernard J Fortuno from Las Vegas have all gathered in a cowtown outside the Sawtooth Mountains to rid the place of "other" thugs, who are holding the town hostage. Counting Spenser, that's 7 - against the usual 30 to 40 guys. Parker is very careful to bring his characters . 0 guys. Parker is very careful to bring his characters
When a band of modern-day mountain men, led by a charismatic individual known as The Preacher, takes over the town, even the local police are powerless to defend the residents in the face of the clever, dangerous gang. Spenser returns — heading west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town recently reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires looking for a place to escape the pressures of their high-flying lifestyles. Six CDs, 6 hrs.performance by Joe MantegnaBoston P.I. Spenser assembles a group of his own, including the redoubtable Hawk, to beat the gang at their own dangerous game and form the nucleus of a real police force to watch over the town when he's gone.
And the hired guns they round up to help them clean out a nest of ne'er-do-wells who have the desert town of Potshot, Arizona, terrified aren't nearly as amusing as, say, John Dortmunder's criminal colleagues in Donald Westlake's caper novels. Parker's best, it's still not bad. But Spenser's not as certain as his client that Steve Buckman died at the Preacher's hands. As our hero and his ethnically diverse but politically incorrect henchmen (one gay shooter, one Latino, one black, one Native American--all that's missing is Annie Oakley) investigate, it turns out that Spenser's right, as usual. The one or two lines devoted to introducing Spenser's backup buddies don't begin to do any of them justice, and there's a lot more description of the artillery the guys pack than usual. The