Pale Kings and Princes (Spenser, No 14) by Parker, Robert B.

ISBN: 0440200040

Author: Parker, Robert B.

Condition: new

Ebullient entertainment.-TimeA 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 novelsLike 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.-NewsweekCrackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing . . . Unexpectedly literate-[Spenser is] in many respects the very exemplar of the species.-The New York TimesThey just dont make private eyes tougher or funnier.-PeopleParker has a recorders ear for dialogue, an agile wit . . . and, strangely enough, a soupon of compassion hidden under that sardonic, flip exterior.-Los Angeles TimesA deft storyteller, a master of pace.-The Philadelphia InquirerSpenser 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[Spenser is] tough, intelligent, wisecracking, principled, and brave.-The New Yorker