Rough Weather, Robert B. Parker
Rough Weather, Robert B. Parker
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Rough Weather

Author: Robert B. Parker

Narrator: Joe Mantegna

Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2008


Synopsis

“Robert B. Parker is that rarity–a prolific author whose books are consistently original, suspenseful and fascinating. His crackling dialogue is always fresh and smart-alecky. You’re happily hooked before you know it.”-Forbes

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, for her daughter’s wedding. Spenser is unsure of what his role as personal bodyguard will entail, but he consents when it’s decided that he can bring his beloved Susan Silverman along.

It should be a straightforward job for Spenser: show up for appearances, have some drinks, and spend some quality time with Susan. Yet when his old nemesis Rugar–the Gray Man–arrives on Tashtego, Spenser realizes that something is amiss. With a hurricane-level storm brewing outside, the Gray Man jumps into action, firing fatal shots into the crowd of wedding guests and kid- napping the bride–but Spenser knows that the sloppy guns-for-hire abduction is not Rugar’s style. Unable to prevent the attack, Spenser will stop at nothing to recover the kidnapped bride and figure out how the Gray Man is connected. It’s up to Spenser to decide who the real enemy is . . . before more people end up dead.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on October 14, 2019

This is how I summed up the novel ten years ago, soon after it was first published:The best Spenser novel in years, featuring Spenser's most dangerous menace, The Gray Man. This novel is somewhat unusual in that it is is a Why-Done-It (we know from the beginning who done it), and Susan is less ir......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on June 08, 2021

In this 36th addition to the 'Spenser' series, the private detective deals with abduction and murder. The book can be read as a standalone, though familiarity with the characters is a bonus. ***** As the story opens, beautiful socialite Heidi Bradshaw glides into Spenser's Boston office to engage h......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on September 24, 2014

Wealthy Heidi Bradshaw made her money the old fashioned way, by marrying and divorcing rich men. She wants Spenser to escort her to her daughter’s wedding on a ritzy private island she owns even thought she already has a security force. Spenser takes the job and brings his girlfriend Susan along. Sh......more

Goodreads review by Ed on May 04, 2020

The old gang--Spenser, Hawk, and Susan--are back on the case again. I love RBP's breezy pace, snappy dialogue, and Boston setting. He doesn't shy away from violence, but it's quickly handled. This time it's a kidnapping when the bride is abducted from her wedding held on an island. Good hardboiled P......more

Goodreads review by Mike on December 10, 2020

Spenser and Sarah are at a swanky wedding when the assembling is confronted by armed bad guys. The groom is killed, the bride abducted, and the Gray Man is back. Good shenanigans and repartee abounds.......more


Quotes

Praise for Rough Weather
 
Rough Weather is bliss.”—The Spectator
 
“Comically acerbic...the reader is treated to all the familiar pleasures...Spenser sitting in his office overlooking Berkeley Street in Boston; the knock on the door announcing a client; Spenser's rapier repartee with client and suspects; the return of his love, Susan, given a larger role here; the always amusing interplay with the mercurial Hawk, Spenser's muscle; and Parker's graceful descriptions of interiors, meals, and clothes.”—Booklist
 
“As usual, Parker's crisp, unadorned style is superb. Parker remains a major figure in American crime fiction.”—Associated Press
 
“Robert B. Parker at his very best with a great suspenseful mystery enhanced by the hero’s even greater love for Susan...The storyline is fast-paced from the moment the Gray Man arrives in a shockingly fumbled caper, but it is the dry-witted Spenser who turns the tale into a thriller’s thriller.”—Midwest Book Review