God Save the Child, Robert B. Parker
God Save the Child, Robert B. Parker
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God Save the Child

Author: Robert B. Parker

Series: Spenser #2

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 5 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2009


Synopsis

Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives.

It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking...except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy's life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too.

"Spenser is everyman's fantasy: social critic, gourmet cook, physically fit, sculptor, and of course, unabashed participant in a non-destructive sexual relationship. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald." (The Boston Globe)

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 second entry in the Spenser series is a good one, featuring an interesting plot, vivid characters and scenes, and the introduction of school psychologist Susan Silverman, Spenser's perennial lover and friend. Spenser is hired by the Bartletts to find their missing son Kevin. At first, Spenser su......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

”’He appeared to be patting you on the hip,’ I said. ‘That’s why you came over.’ Susan smiled and shook her head. ‘Were you prepared to defend my virtue?’ ‘I’m in pursuit of it myself and I don’t like poachers.’ ‘He’s a very big man in this town,’ Susan said. ‘Board of Selectmen, Conservation Commissio......more

Goodreads review by Kemper

Spenser goes to a gay bar circa 1974. Wacky hijinks ensue. God Save the Child is the second book of the Spenser series, and it’s probably most notable for the introduction of Susan Silverman, the woman who will become Spenser’s long-time girlfriend and eventually the center of his world. Since the Sp......more