Still, his doing so is sufficiently rare that it is exceedingly satisfying to watch this prose master lay down his cool, clean lines from outside someone's skin. He has employed the third person before, most notably in Wilderness and the cop saga All Our Yesterdays. Brandman co-wrote the screenplays for Stone Cold, No Remorse and Innocents Lost, and supervised the screenplay adaptations of Night Passage, Death in Paradise. A major crime-fiction event from the creator of the Spenser novels.The author of two dozen Spenser novels as well as numerous other works of fiction, Robert B. The most powerful romance here, though, is between Parker and the written word. What's less predictable here are the complex, expertly shaded relationships, especially romantic, as Jesse flails and fails at loving both his ex-wife and his new girlfriend. And so will Jesse, for although alluringly moody and silent, he is, like Spenser, a tough man of honor who gets the job done. Also, many of the supporting characters-the official, his bully of a sidekick, a couple of mobsters and a burned-out teen whom Jesse befriends-will seem, though crisply carved, too familiar to Spenser devotees. 90, etc. With Parker playing nearly all his cards face-up, there's little mystery and no suspense as Jesse uncovers, then foils, a murderous conspiracy on the part of a town official and his white-power militia. Homicide only to be offered a job as police chief of a small Massachusetts town, in the third person, and his plotting suffers from the resultant multiple viewpoints.
Parker writes of Stone, an alcoholic cop booted out of L.A.
But Professor Challenger didn't save Conan Doyle from Holmes, Tiger Mann never put the kibosh on Spillane's Mike Hammer-and Jessie Stone, though a finely wrought protagonist, won't keep Parker's fans from clamoring for ever more Spenser stories. Against all this, Jesse stands utterly alone, with no one to trust even he and the woman hes seeing are like ships that pass in the night.
Urn:oclc:748299582 Scandate 20101030005913 Scanner series characters can wind up tyrannizing their creators, who often seek relief in secondary series heroes. From the iconic Spenser detective series and the novels featuring Sunny Randall and Jesse Stone, to the groundbreaking historical novel Double Play, Parkers imagination has taken readers from Boston to Brooklyn and back again. OL14860095W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.09 Pages 346 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0515123498 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:37:54 Boxid IA128706 Camera Canon 5D City New York Curatestate approved Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.
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