Double Play

Two things I love: Baseball and Robert Parker. Doubly so when mixed together. Robert Parker, famous for creating the loveable and sarcastic Spenser, has taken a pivotal event in baseball (and America’s) history—the moment Jackie Robinson breached the color barrier—and blended it into a noir/memoir/h......more

This was weird. I expected a baseball book and instead got a badly written, romance/mob bosses facing off book? It felt like the inclusion on Jackie Robinson was pretty useless, as almost all of the issues had to deal with the mob ordering hits on people (and not specifically Robinson) rather than f......more

Quick read from Robert B. Parker – Burke is a disillusioned WWII veteran who returned from Guadalcanal to find a note on the table and his wife gone. Once home, he progresses from fighter to “enforcer” to bodyguard. His good work for the organized crime bosses of New York help him land a position gu......more