Robert B. Parker
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 205 pages Rating: 3.93 | 7497 Users | 414 Reviews
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| Original Title: | God Save the Child |
| ISBN: | 0440128994 (ISBN13: 9780440128991) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Spenser #2 |
| Characters: | Spenser, Susan Silverman, Lieutenant Healy, Henry Cimoli, Roger Bartlett, Kevin Bartlett, Margery Bartlett, Vic Harroway |
| Setting: | Massachusetts(United States) Boston, Massachusetts(United States) |
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Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking...except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy's life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too.Specify Out Of Books God Save The Child (Spenser #2)
| Title | : | God Save The Child (Spenser #2) |
| Author | : | Robert B. Parker |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 205 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1987 by Dell Publishing Co., Inc. (first published 1974) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Detective |
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This second entry in Robert B. Parkers Spenser series is quite different from the first. The novel is still written in the early 1970s about a group of people living in that same time frame. However, this time the story centers on a crime involving a child.The 15-year-old son of an affluent building contractor has disappeared and Spenser is hired by the parents to locate him. The father is a hard-working soul that is saddled with an angry, promiscuous and narcissistic wife and Spensers earlyThe second Spenser book possesses a lot of what I liked about the early series: Spenser working on his own (before Hawk), tremendous descriptions of the world in which he works (as in the section on his first drive to Smithfield), sharp social commentary (all the better because it is not overt), a real relationship (it's the first book with Susan, who is a real character in it, not the caricature she becomes), and some hard-edged physicality (as in the fight with Vic Harroway). Spenser is, of
The second in Robert B. Parker's famed Spencer series, God Save The Child is an enjoyable tough-guy private detective story mixed with a dose of social commentary on the failings of the suburban bourgeoisie.The mystery itself, which revolves around a missing high school student sought after (if only occasionally it seems) by his distraught (though rarely by the loss of their son) parents. Spencer must figure out what happened to the boy and bring him back even as he uncovers one nefarious player
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.--- [image error]He hunched the chair forward and wrote a check on the edge of my desk with a translucent ballpoint pen. Bartlett Construction was imprinted in the upper left corner of the checkI was going to be a business expense. Deductible. One keg of 8d nails, 500 feet of 2x4 utility grade, one gumshoe, 100 gallons of creosote stain. I took the check without looking at it and slipped it folded into my shirt pocket, casual, like I got them
Spenser has become my favorite character. Funny, Tough, and pretty bad ass.
Oh, Parker. I swear, there must have been a standard in the 70s (1974, to be exact) where 25% of a detective novel had to be description. I think it's driving Jilly nuts over in Kinsey-Malone land, but I'm finding Parker's version of it kind of eye-watering. I mean, my idea of dressing myself back then was Garanimals, so I shouldn't judge. But just you try and see this:He was dressed in what must have been his wife's idea of the contemporary look... He had on baggy white cuffed flares, a solid
This second entry in the Spenser series is a good one, featuring an interesting plot, vivid characters and scenes, and the introduction of school psychologist Susan Silverman, Spenser's perennial lover and friend.Spenser is hired by the Bartletts to find their missing son Kevin. At first, Spenser supposes Kevin may be just a runaway--after all, the Barletts are parents any self-respecting high school sophomore would want to escape frombut then, the ransom note for $50,000 arrives. Still Spenser
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