Pale Kings and Princes, Robert B. Parker
Pale Kings and Princes, Robert B. Parker
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Pale Kings and Princes

Author: Robert B. Parker

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 4 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2009


Synopsis

“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
 
“[Spenser is] tough, intelligent, wisecracking, principled, and brave.”—The New Yorker

About The Author

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, novels featuring Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, Parker died in January 2010.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

This is a run-of-the-mill Spenser. But run-of-the-mill Spenser is still pretty good. You could do better, but, believe me, you could also do worse. Spenser is hired by a newspaper editor to investigate the death of a reporter. The local Wheaton police department claim the reporter was a womanizer, an......more

Goodreads review by Kemper

This one took me back to the mid-80’s when almost all the fictional bad guys were cocaine dealers. Nowadays with villains like terrorists, serial killers, pedophiles and other psychotic nut cases hogging the mystery/crime genre limelight, it almost makes me miss the days when a kilo of coke was cons......more

Goodreads review by Jim

This is another entry into a long running series where each book is a stand alone. In this one, Spenser is hired to look into the death of a reporter who was investigating drugs running out of a small Massachusetts town. Three stars might be a little too generous but it definitely did not deserve two......more

Goodreads review by Bill

Spenser takes on a small town controlled by a drug dealer using his wisecracks and cockiness with backup help from his pal Hawk and girlfriend Susan.......more