‘The best new private eye in fiction since Raymond Chandler’ Dan Wakefield
TV reporter Candy Sloan is in danger, after investigating labour racketeering in Hollywood’s movie industry. Someone isn’t happy about it. Spenser is hired to keep Candy safe until the story breaks, but when he discovers quite how far she is willing go to secure her headline, he begins to have second thoughts about the job. But soon her unorthodox approach isn’t his only concern…
‘They just don’t make private eyes tougher or funnier’ People
TV reporter Candy Sloan is in danger, after investigating labour racketeering in Hollywood’s movie industry. Someone isn’t happy about it. Spenser is hired to keep Candy safe until the story breaks, but when he discovers quite how far she is willing go to secure her headline, he begins to have second thoughts about the job. But soon her unorthodox approach isn’t his only concern…
‘They just don’t make private eyes tougher or funnier’ People
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Reviews
Spencer is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction
Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe or Lewis Archer... Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself
When it comes to detective novels, 90 per cent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it
One of the great series in the history of the detective story
Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenalin
The legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition
Nobody does it better
