The Professional: A Spenser Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553545213 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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You can also take Ed Harris's word—in your own adventures in Southern California you may have noticed how infrequent that is. YA novels are hard because you know a great deal that you can't use.Grafton: I saw the movie Appaloosa last night on DVD, and while I haven't had a chance to read the novel and study the two side by side, I got the impression that the movie was close to what you had in mind. Will you write about Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch again? You did seem to leave the door open to that possibility.Parker: I’ve written two sequels to Appaloosa (Resolution and Brimstone) and am finishing up a third (Blue-Eyed Devil). Read on to see Sue Grafton's questions for Robert B. It is as close as it could possibly be to the book, and those parts that had to be added are hard for me to tell from my own stuff. Parker, or turn the tables to see what Parker asked Grafton.Grafton
Robert B. He lives in Boston. . Parker is the author of more than fifty books
Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment goes from blackmail to murder.As matters become more complicated, Spenser's longtime love, Susan, begins offering some input by analyzing Eisenhower's behavior patterns in hopes of opening up a new avenue of investigation. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. So if he's not using them for blackmail, then what is his purpose? Spenser switches tactics to focus on the husbands, only to find that innocence and guilt may be two sides of the same coin.. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower- and now he's blackmailing them for money. A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. It seems that not all of Gary's women are rich. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men
A page turner, typical of Parker's genius Jeff Wignall I have always loved Robert B. Parker's writing, and in particular the Spenser series, so I'm pretty much a fan of his books before I open the covers. This is not his strongest book (I like "Hugger Mugger" and "Potshot" off the top of my head), but it's very good and it's interesting in that I don't agree with Spenser's assessment of whether the lead villain is doing right or wrong: Spenser doesn't seem to see the harm in some of what this guy is doing which is surprising since Spe. Melvin Anderson said Who's the professional?. Books fall into many categories, one of which is crime. This specialty is further broken down into many sub-species, a few of which are police procedurals, who-done-its, private investigators and others. Robert B. Parker has chosen the private investigator for one of his series of novels, in particular, Spenser, further differentiated into the hard-boiled investigator type. To further differentiate it, Spenser is a former cop who maintains contact and friendship with officials fro. Sometimes hearing is not the way to go Gnomes Rule Review of the Audio book versionInsipid secondary characters plus silly uninteresting plot equals a tedious story. No tension, no suspense by the last disc I just wanted it to be over. The characters were so unappealing that I couldn't care less what happened to them.And speaking of characters, perfect characters can be boring characters. Take for example, Susan Silverman. She has to be, one of the most boring fictional characters one would have the displeasure to come across. And