Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. HTML:�??Ebullient entertainment.�?��??Time
A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at �??Miami North�?��??little Wheaton, Massachusetts�??the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line.
Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?
Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.
Praise for Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels
�??Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action . . . but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction.�?��??Newsweek
�??Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing . . . Unexpectedly literate�??[Spenser is] in many respects the very exemplar of the species.�?��??The New York Times
 
�??They just don�??t make private eyes tougher or funnier.�?��??People
 
�??Parker has a recorder�??s ear for dialogue, an agile wit . . . and, strangely enough, a soupçon of compassion hidden under that sardonic, flip exterior.�?��??Los Angeles Times
 
�??A deft storyteller, a master of pace.�?��??The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
�??Spenser probably had more to do with changing the private eye from a coffin-chaser to a full-bodied human being than any other detective hero.�?��??The Chicago Sun-Times
 
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