Pastime
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.27 (704 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1597770213 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 266 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2018-01-15 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Mike H said Parker Hits a Home Run With This Spenser Novel. I've read the first 18 Spenser novels and this is without a doubt the best and most substantial of that group.The novel is poignant on several levels. In it he revisits his seventh Spenser book -- "Early Autumn" -- and his character Paul Giacomin, who was 15 when Spenser rescued him and became his surrogate father. Now "Parker Hits a Home Run With This Spenser Novel" according to Mike H. I've read the first 18 Spenser novels and this is without a doubt the best and most substantial of that group.The novel is poignant on several levels. In it he revisits his seventh Spenser book -- "Early Autumn" -- and his character Paul Giacomin, who was 15 when Spenser rescued him and became his surrogate father. Now 25, Giacomin asks Spenser to locate his flighty and mostly absent mother, who has disappeared. Along t. 5, Giacomin asks Spenser to locate his flighty and mostly absent mother, who has disappeared. Along t. shacar55 said ABSOLUTE FAVORITE. The personal history of Spenser's life is revealed. The homeyness and masculinity of his father and uncles fills in more detail of how Spencer became the man.This story is more complex. As you follow the thread of each characters role, the foundation of loyalty, trust and love between each main character weaves a beautiful tapestry. Add the "bad guys", Spencer's epic triumph of good vs evil, you can't put this book down. It is past time for pastime Melvin Anderson I have thirty-five novels of Parker's Spenser novels, most of which I have read. "Pastime" is, in my opinion, undoubtedly the best of all the novels I have read. It is a shame he died last year because he was still producing good novels among those of his later years, not "Pastime" which is an earlier effort. It is not worth comparing the Jesse Stone or Sonny Randall books, I have never been able to figure out why he wr
Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father's rage. Now, on the brink of manhood, the boy seeks answers to his mother's sudden disapearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to.This time, it's more than a routine search for a missing person--Spenser must search his own soul. Parker's electrifying masterpeice of crime fiction--a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller of all, Pastime is Robert B
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Boston sleuth Spenser trails a woman to her gangster boyfriend's hideout in a mystery that spent eight weeks on PW 's bestseller list.