Bad Business (Spenser Mysteries)
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (632 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0739309498 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 170 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Apparently, the unfettered pursuit of profit has a price.With razor sharp characterizations and finely honed prose, this is Parker at the height of his powers.. O'Mara's brand of sex therapy is unconventional at best, unlawful--and deadly--at worst. When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband Trent is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargained for: not only does he find a two-timing husband, but a second investigator as well, hired by the husband to look after his wife. As a result of their joint efforts, Spenser soon finds himself investigating both individual depravity and corpora
. Spenser links Kinergy's slick founder/CEO to the sex ring and blackmails him to gain access to Kinergy's records, unveiling a pattern of accounting deceptions that reveal a company about to go under. Maybe all that cheating explains why Spenser keeps running into other PIs hired by Kinergy folk, but it doesn't point to why Trent is found shot dead at Kinergy headquarters. From Publishers Weekly Spenser #31 finds the veteran Boston PI tackling corporate crime in a routine yet absorbing outing. All rights reserved. As usual, Spenser
Liam Person said Definitley not a Light Read. Definitely not a light read. You really have to pay attention when you're reading this novel. Mr. Parker has intertwined several characters, and at times, I had a bit of trouble keeping track of them. Sometimes he referred to them by their given first name, other times by their sir names. If you aren't paying full attention when they are first introduced into the story, you might find yourself going back to find out which character Mr. Parker was referring to at this time in the sto. "Predictably good" according to Richard B. Schwartz. It is hard to conceive of a bad Parker novel. By now his skills are so honed, his characters so familiar, his dialogue so effortless, his sense of place so assured and his plots so polished that he is the safest buy in crime fiction.This is good, average Parker, with very deft depiction of the accounting scams motivating the crime. As others have noted, the Enron parallels are explicit, there is too much Susan and too little action. Still, we buy the books and enjoy them.We all cont. "ALMOST THERE ALMOST THERE" according to Greggorio!. When the distressed wife of a successful businessman comes to our man Spenser to find proof of her husband's infidelity, the last thing he expects to find is another private investigator hired to shadow his new employer. It turns out that this literary epigrammatism is only the tip of the iceberg in this unique mystery from the modern master of the whodunit.The trademark witticisms and psychoanalysis of the baddies are still to be found aplenty by the reader, but Hawk is conspicuous