The Judas Goat, Robert B. Parker
The Judas Goat, Robert B. Parker
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The Judas Goat

Author: Robert B. Parker

Series: Spenser #5

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 5 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2009

Synopsis

Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers who've blown away his client's wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn't choosy.

But there are nine killers to one Spenser -- long odds. Hawk helps balance the equation. The rest depends on a wild plan. Spenser will get one of the terrorists to play Judas Goat -- to lead him to others. Trouble is, he hasn't counted on her being very blond, very beautiful and very dangerous.

"Spenser is Boston's answer to James Bond...with a little Sam Spade and Nero Wolfe thrown in...Irreverent, witty, worldly...makes for fast, amusing reading." (Pittsburgh Press)

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 James on September 03, 2023

This is the fifth book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. By this entry, the character of Spenser, the tough, wise-cracking P.I. has largely taken shape. The two other principal characters, Spenser's lover, Susan Silverman, and his sidekick, Hawk, are still rounding into form. The relationship be......more

Goodreads review by Bill on March 23, 2019

This is the least satisfying of the first baker's dozen of Spenser mysteries (which are superior to the next baker's dozen, which in turn are superior to the next and last). But, since Parker is a master technician, there is still enough sharp wit, deft description, and mayhem—with a little sex and......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on January 16, 2012

I don't think Interpol would ever let Spenser and Hawk back into Europe after the blood bath they cause overseas in this one. Hugh Dixon is a wealthy American businessman who had a wife and two kids until they were the random victims of a terrorist bombing in London. Dixon is crippled, his family is......more

Goodreads review by Bill on December 27, 2024

Spenser takes a bounty hunting job that takes him and Hawk on an adventure around the globe ending at the Montreal Olympics. Well fleshed out characters and an interesting mystery makes this a top notch entry in the series.......more

Goodreads review by Howard on February 19, 2022

4 Stars for The Judas Goat: Spencer Series, Book 5 (audiobook) by Robert Parker read by Michael Prichard. To me, reading this feels like going back to 1978 in a time machine. So much has changed in the world. It’s kind of funny to think that for it’s time this book was probably kind of progressive.......more

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Praise for Robert B. Parker and The Spenser Novels

“One of the greatest series in the history of the American detective story!”—The New York Times

“[Spenser is] the sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye today.”—The Cincinnati Post

“Spenser novels are addictive.”—The Denver Post

“They just don't make private eyes tougher or funnier. The dialogue sparkles.”—People

“Robert B. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald.”—The Boston Globe

“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.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“Parker is now the best writer of this kind of fiction in business today.”—The New Republic

“The toughest, funniest, wisest private eye in the field these days.”—The Houston Post

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