"Ebullient entertainment."--Time A hotshot reporter is dead.
Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, Parker died in January 2010..
Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, novels featuring Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. and, strangely enough, a soup on of compassion hidden under that sardonic, flip exterior."--Los Angeles Times "A deft storyteller, a master of pace."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "Spenser probably had more to do with changing the private eye from a coffin-chaser to a full-bodied human being than any other detective hero."--The Chicago Sun-Times " Spenser is] tough, intelligent, wisecracking, principled, and brave."--The New Yorker About the Author: Robert B. . .
Unexpectedly literate-- Spenser is] in many respects the very exemplar of the species."--The New York Times "They just don\'t make private eyes tougher or funnier."--People "Parker has a recorder\'s ear for dialogue, an agile wit . . . but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction."--Newsweek "Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing . . .
The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action .
When he says he will do something, it is done.
Parker\'s Spenser novels "Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world.
Praise for Robert B. or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband? Spenser will stop at nothing to find out. . .
Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth .
He\'d gone to take a look-see at "Miami North"--little Wheaton, Massachusetts--the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line. "Ebullient entertainment."--Time A hotshot reporter is dead
