The Book Depository Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker
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Description: Mortal Stakes : Paperback : Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc : 9780440157588 : 0440157587 : 01 Jul 1995 : Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life. Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with Linda's past.or to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer and an enforcer toting an M-16. America's favorite pastime has suddenly become a very dangerous sport, and one wrong move means strike. The Book Depository Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780440157588
MPN: 0440157587
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Rating: 5
Review: I loved reading the Reacher books and was bereft when I’d read the last one. Then I read the Cole & Pike books, loved them, and was bereft when i finished the last one. So far, these books are at least the equal of those other two series. It is absolutely obvious that Spenser was a clear blueprint for Elvis Cole.
Author: Gs-trentham
Rating: 3
Review: Mortal Stakes is the third book in the Spenser canon. First published in 1975 (and very much of its era) it will be of great interest to Parker devotees. There are times when it is almost as though the author is growing his idea chapter by chapter. The early pace is slow and it is only about a third of the way though (the picnic with Brenda Loring) that there is the first example of the smart dialogue that became a Parker trademark. Throughout, there is an excess of descriptive detail - of people and of their apparel; later books would not remove it entirely but simply pare it down to a telling element or two. There is a sex scene more prolonged and explicit than would sit comfortably in later novels. Then there are the characters Spenser encounters when he is commissioned to investigate the possibility that something is amiss inside the Red Sox baseball club. Bucky - the commentator - and his bubblegum chewing henchman are well drawn, but a whole cast of Red Sox players and managmeent is fleetingly introduced never to reappear. Susan Silverman is curiously only sparely acknowledged until the closing chapters. But there is no Pearl the wonder dog, Cimoli's gym gets a single mention. On the police side Mathhew Quirk and Frank Belson are already fully established. But crucially, there is no Hawk. Spenser without Hawk is only half the wise-cracking tough but sensitive private eye he will become. Interestingly, at the end there is a signpost towards the subsequent books when Spenser and Susan conduct a long discussion about the principles by which he lives. There are better - - much better - Spenser tales to follow but Mortal Stakes is not negliginle.
