Pale Kings And Princes (Spenser, No 14),Used

Ebullient entertainment.TimeA hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a looksee at Miami Northlittle Wheaton, Massachusettsthe biggest cocaine distribution center above the MasonDixon line.Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.Praise for Robert B. Parker's Spenser novelsLike Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action . . . but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction.NewsweekCrackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing . . . Unexpectedly literate[Spenser is] in many respects the very exemplar of the species.The New York TimesThey just dont make private eyes tougher or funnier.PeopleParker has a recorders ear for dialogue, an agile wit . . . and, strangely enough, a soupon of compassion hidden under that sardonic, flip exterior.Los Angeles TimesA deft storyteller, a master of pace.The Philadelphia InquirerSpenser probably had more to do with changing the private eye from a coffinchaser to a fullbodied human being than any other detective hero.The Chicago SunTimes[Spenser is] tough, intelligent, wisecracking, principled, and brave.The New Yorker