- Fiction, Private investigators, Spenser (Fictitious character), Boston (mass.), fiction
Private eye Spenser returns to take on the terrorists who killed his client's wife and daughters in a London bombing, chasing them across Europe to the Montreal Olympics and a devastating climax.
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 203
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch, Thorndike Press, J. Curley
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780233970462
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