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Rough Weather 
| 60% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Putnam Adult Catalog: Book Release date: 2008-10-21 Media: Hardcover Number of pages: 304 Ean: 9780399155192 Book Isbn: 0399155198  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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A hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible— the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past. Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well connected —and she needs Spenser’s help. In a most unlikely request, Heidi, a notorious gold digger recently separated from her latest husband, recruits the Boston P.I. to accompany her to her private island, Tashtego. The reason? To attend her daughter’s wedding as a sort of stand-in husband and protector. Spenser consents, but only after it is established that his beloved Susan Silverman will also be in attendance. It should be a straightforward job for Spenser: show up for appearances, have some drinks, and spend some quality time with Susan. But when Spenser’s old nemesis Rugar—the Gray Man—arrives, Spenser realizes that something is amiss. A storm, a kidnapping, and murder tear apart what should be a joyous occasion, and Rugar is seemingly at the center of it all. The only thing is that the sloppy kidnapping is not Rugar’s style—as Spenser knows from past encounters. With six dead bodies and more questions than he can process, Spenser begins a search for answers—and the Gray Man. With its razor-sharp dialogue, crisply etched characters, and high-wire narrative tension, Rough Weather once again proves that “Robert B. Parker is a force of nature” (The Boston Globe). |
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 Written on December 21, 2008 Summary: Best recent Spenser novel I thought this was one of the very best recent Spenser novels. It's a good reworking of Hammett's "The Gutting of Couffignal," which gives the scholarly Parker a chance to show Spenser in action in a new way: rain-buffeted, worried Susan might be killed, and completely unable to influence the overall situation he's in, barely able to save his own life. Some readers are complaining that Parker is getting repetitive, but the island action sequence may be the very first time Spenser has been helpless like this, and Parker handles his near-desperation with real authority. He also gives more of Susan's defects than usual. She also, and this is another first, says there are some things Spenser wouldn't do for her, because he would never let anything, even her, control him. All in all, this is a more mature Spenser novel than his others, as if Parker had been influenced by his own Jesse Stone stories. To the critics who don't like repetition, I can only say that Spenser repeats no more than Hammett does in his Continental Op stories, and that I can't really complain if he, like T. S. Eliot, has found a way to increase his writing income by toying a little with publishing methods. He has a fine talent and it's not running out. More power and money to him. Written on December 14, 2008 Summary: Best Spenser in a while As I mentioned in my review of the previous Spenser novel, "Now and Then", Mr. Parker has just been recycling his stories. The earlier book felt like someone had just gone through all of his previous novels and copied anything Susan had said. I am happy to say that, in this novel, Susan is much less annoying. This time, the book spends more time with the plot and less with the relationship between Spenser and Susan. That can only be for the good. This read was much more satisfying than the last few. I don't know what changed, but Mr. Parker needs to keep heading in this direction. Maybe Susan needs to take a bullet, so Spenser can get back to being Spenser. Written on December 10, 2008 Summary: One of the better Spenser novels of late I've been reading Spenser novels since I was in high school... let's just say it wasn't that long after the series first started. I have noticed the last few books were getting to be quicker and quicker reads. This one is no different in that respect, but at least this one was moreinteresting at its core due to the storyline with the Gray Man. It's not up to the standards of Spenser novels of 10 or 15 years ago, but it's the best of the last several Spenser novels.  Written on December 9, 2008 Summary: Spenser is back. Yay! If you have read most of Robert Parker's previous Spenser books, you know what you are in for. Familiar characters - Spenser, Hawk, Susan Silverman, Healy, Pearl, Belson, Tony Marcus, etc. This familiarity is not a bad thing. It actually is one of the main reasons I enjoy the Spenser books. You can count on witty repartee among Spenser, Susan, and Hawk. You know Spenser will toy with some big thug in a fight. You know attempts will be made on his life. You know you will be able to laugh at the typical behavior of Susan's dog Pearl. All of this is just great fun. Rough Weather fits the pattern of the previous books. We even get the Gray Man back as the villain. All of the Spenser books are short, have numerous chapters, and can be read quickly. The temptation is always there to read just one more chapter before going to sleep. Just one more. The specific plot really doesn't matter that much. In this one, Spenser is hired by a wealthy socialite to act as a bodyguard at her daughter's wedding at a private island off the coast. The Gray Man appears and all hell breaks loose with a kidnapping, murders, and a hurricane all going on at the same time. Spenser spends the rest of the book working his way through a web of lies to arrive at an interesting final solution. Mr. Parker clearly has a successful pattern with the Spenser books, and Rough Weather fits right in. Read it. You'll enjoy it.  Written on December 8, 2008 Summary: I hope the ghost writer got paid in advance I am sure this was not written by RBP. The language is not consistent with any of the previous Spenser novels - Hawk sounds like a one-dimensional caricature of himself. Spenser sounds like a low-rent knock off of Sam Spade - his gratuitous dismissal of the usage of an umbrella contains a vulgarity one would not associate with a poetry-quoting renaissance man. I'm sad to say I was disappointed with the novel. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2008-10-21 | 2008-10-14 | 2008-10-21 | 2008-10-28 | 2008-11-04 | 2008-09-23 |
| Media | Hardcover | Hardcover | Hardcover | Hardcover | Hardcover | Hardcover |
| Number of pages | 304 | 432 | 368 | 688 | 400 | 400 |
| Ean | 9780399155192 | 9780316166294 | 9780345495136 | 9780446533423 | 9780446195508 | 9780399155277 |
| Book Isbn | 0399155198 | 0316166294 | 0345495136 | 0446533424 | 0446195502 | 0399155279 |
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