Political activist and author Rachel Wallace is a tough young woman who writes – and speaks – her mind, which has made her a lot of enemies. But she’s got a new book due out, exposing discriminatory practices by several prominent corporations, and it’s pretty clear some of those enemies want her dead.
‘Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing’ New York Times Book Review
Her publishers, insisting she has a bodyguard, hire the biggest toughest guy they can find: Spenser, the tough guy with a macho code of honour, hired to protect a feminist who thinks that code is obsolete.
‘Nobody does it better’ Publishers Weekly
Privately, they will never see eye to eye – that’s why she fires him – but when Rachel vanishes, Spenser starts rattling skeletons in blue-blooded family closets and tangling with the Ku Klux Klan, ready to lay his life on the line to find Rachel Wallace.
‘Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing’ New York Times Book Review
Her publishers, insisting she has a bodyguard, hire the biggest toughest guy they can find: Spenser, the tough guy with a macho code of honour, hired to protect a feminist who thinks that code is obsolete.
‘Nobody does it better’ Publishers Weekly
Privately, they will never see eye to eye – that’s why she fires him – but when Rachel vanishes, Spenser starts rattling skeletons in blue-blooded family closets and tangling with the Ku Klux Klan, ready to lay his life on the line to find Rachel Wallace.
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Reviews
Nobody does it better
Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing
A rare kind of book
The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today . . . the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition
Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer . . . Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself
When it comes to detective novels, 90 per cent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it
The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today . . . the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition
One of the great series in the history of the detective story RWB Lewis
Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenalin
Spenser gives the tribe of hard-boiled wonders a new vitality and complexity
Robert Parker is still top gun in the tough-guy school of fiction
Spenser is a constant revelation for even long-time Parker fans Milwaukee Sentinel
Reading a Spenser novel is like a family reunion - it makes one feel good
Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe or Lewis Archer . . . Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself