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Laddar... Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot (Spenser) (utgåvan 2015)av Ace Atkins (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. When you are 43 books into a series, surprises are not really expected - you are here to meet the same people you had grown to really like. After Parker died, I was a bit worried about the Spenser series - it relied a lot on the very distinct style of the author which pulled off even the weaker books. But I still wanted to see where the next writer will get the characters - so I just proceeded to work through the series, now written by Atkins. And the previous two installments did not disappoint. And neither did this one. Hawk is back in town, Susan is there, Pearl makes a brief appearance. Zebulon Sixkill is still around (and almost recovered from the mess he got himself into in the last books), Quirk and Belson are around as always, the new FBI head-agent who replaced Epstein is the usual moron. We are missing some of the usual cast (Rita always makes me smile and we had not seen Lee Farrell or Paul Giacomin or most of the extended character list but we cannot get them every time I guess. When the book opens, Spenser is hired to protect a pro-ball player - although it is not clear if it is the player that needs protection or he is asked to protect people from the player. Before long things take an ugly turn - the player's 8 years old son Akira disappears and the job changes. And off everyone goes - the state police (no Healy...), FBI, Spenser - everyone seems to be trying to do the same thing - find the child. But the kidnappers refuse to call and everyone seems to be chasing shadows. Add a second wife and the mother of the child, a somewhat checkered past of the first and some back history of the father, Gerry Broz selling fish (nope, not Gino Fish -- real fish) and some more of the rogue gallery suddenly being helpful and things start getting complicated. When Parker introduced Z, it looked like a repetition - he is too close to Hawk as a character (minus the sleekness of the older man). Atkins chose not just to keep him but also to use him - but he had a bit of a problem - Hawk and Spenser had a third in the face of Vinnie. As last year took care of that (and I suspect that we are still to see all the repercussions), Z slid into the role which Vinnie had played in earlier books, except that Z is around a bit more. And this time, without a third character, the novel would not have worked. If you had been reading the series so far, this novel is a good addition - it is closer to the middle novels from Spenser, more complex in the plotting than the later books (although I would argue that the seemingly simple plots are what makes this series good). In places it feels as if some of the side stories may have been dropped without harming the book. But if you have never read the series before, I would say not to start here - while you will get the basic introduction to Z, most of the older characters are not even introduced and there are so many allusions to older novels and throwaway phrases that make sense only if you had read the books that I am not sure if the novel won't feel more like a sketch than a real novel if you are not getting them. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"The iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser returns in an outstanding new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots' marquee players-a hard-nosed linebacker who's earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his slick agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says have been harassing his client. Heywood's troubles seem to be tied to a nightclub shooting from two years earlier. But when Heywood's nine-year-old son, Akira, is kidnapped, ransom demands are given, and a winding trail through Boston's underworld begins, Spenser puts together his own all-star team of toughs. It will take both Hawk and Spenser's prote;ge;, Zebulon Sixkill, to watch Spenser's back and return the child to the football star's sprawling Chestnut Hill mansion. A controversial decision from Heywood only ups the ante as the clock winds down on Akira's future. "--
"When off-field violence repeatedly lands the NE Patriots' Kinjo Heywood bad press, his slick agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says have been harassing his client. When Heywood's son is kidnapped, Spenser puts together his own all-star team of toughs. It will take both Hawk and Spenser's protege, Zebulon Sixkill, to watch Spenser's back and find the child"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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You are never going to read Spenser to figure out what the world is about. You read Spenser for the characters. They are all here. Hell, I even like Susan again. Great story. Fast read. Leaves you wanting more. A perfect recipe. ( )