Spenser's Greatest Vulnerabilities and Most Sensitive Feelings Are Exposed
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Now & Then provides plenty of what you like about Spenser. If you like Spenser, this book is a winner!
When Robert Parker decides to do his best with a Spenser novel, there's no experience quite like it. The dialogue is sharp, witty, and intriguing. The moral issues are tough and nicely nuanced. Choices are difficult . . . and costly. The love between Spenser and Susan is almost palpable. The deep loyalty among Spenser and his friends is abiding and heart-warming. The evils that he overcomes are ones that turn your stomach. The physical resolutions are oh so satisfying, like a great hot breakfast on a cold morning.
No one has ever better translated the stories of the knights errant into modern times better than Robert Parker.
Be prepared for a great story.
Dennis Doherty wants Spenser to find out why his wife is out late at night and sometimes shows signs of drinking. Doherty is like a cat on a hot tin roof . . . everything that Spenser says almost scares him off. Doherty is also way too reticent about himself: Something is being hidden.
Spenser quickly finds that Professor Jordan Richmond (Doherty's 51-year-old wife) is snuggling and more with a visiting professor, Perry Alderson, who is attractive to women, knows it, and lives the good life.
Doherty wants proof that where there's smoke there's fire, and Spenser tapes some explosive pillow talk that suggests that the relationship has a basis in something other than musical beds. Knowing how dangerous the tape is, Spenser edits it down before sharing it with his client.
The result is still an explosion, one that reverberates throughout the book. What is the right thing to do?
The more Spenser tries to do the right thing, the worse the situation gets for him . . . and Susan. Before long, Spenser feels he needs as many troops as he can get.
In the middle of the danger, Susan asks Spenser an ultimate question . . . one that's even harder than what's the right thing to do about this case.
If you like stories where Spenser spends more time with Susan, Hawk, Vinnie, and Chollo, this book will be one of your favorites.
The book is filled with intriguing mysteries, abnormal psychology, excellent action, solid investigation and detection, and satisfying steps taken by Spenser. You'll have a ball!
Great work, Mr. Parker!
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