The Widening Gyre (Spenser Novels (Dell))


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    • ISBN13: 9780440195351
    • Condition: New
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    • Author : Robert B. Parker
    • Binding : Mass Market Paperback
    • Dewey Decimal Number : 813
    • EAN : 9780440195351
    • Edition : Reissue
    • ISBN : 0440195357
    • Is Eligible For Trade In? : Yes
    • Label : Dell
    • List Price : $7.99 (USD)
    • Manufacturer : Dell
    • Number Of Items : 1
    • Number Of Pages : 192
    • Package Dimensions : 0.70 inches (Height) x 6.70 inches (Length) x 0.20 pounds (Weight) x 4.10 inches (Width)
    • Publication Date : 1992-06-01
    • Publisher : Dell
    • Release Date : 1992-06-01
    • Studio : Dell

    The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem someone has managed to put on videotape. The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate's bandwagon. But getting back the tape of the lady's X-rated indiscretion is a nonstop express ride to trouble--trouble that is deep, wide and deadly. "A thriller all the way." (Seattle Times)

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    Rated 4.0 stars Customers rated The Widening Gyre (Spenser Novels (Dell)) 4.0 stars out of 5.0 based on 13 reviews:

    • Spenser's Winning Me Over! Lynn A. in S. FL

      by Lynn Applefield - 2010-08-29  Rated 4 stars
      This my second read about Spenser & his unique persona kept me more interested. Good story, kept moving/changing & the humor original!

    • macho detective snuffs out shakedown

      by Robert S. Newman (Marblehead, Massachusetts USA) - 2009-09-29  Rated 3 stars
      I was driving down a narrow Maine highway. A blue sky, nearly cloudless, hung over the low forest. I wasn't nursing a bottle of Irish whisky. My stomach rumbled thanks to the low quality fried clams I'd eaten the night before. I spotted two overweight ladies in baseball t-shirts on a roadside porch. A sign read "Yard Sale". I had to stop. Amidst the junk and used kids' toys, I found two novels by Robert B. Parker. I bought them. Set me back fifty cents. What did "Gyre" mean, I wondered. I didn't really find out, though "vortex" could be a choice. A tough Boston detective named Spenser gets hired by a born-again Christian politician to provide security. In Massachusetts ? Running for the Senate ? You know something is weird right from the start. I grabbed my mug of tea (Lipton's) and headed upstairs to read more. Yeah, this guy is tough, totes a piece, and can beat up any two hoodlums without breaking a sweat. But he has two lovers, a woman and a man. He believes in love. He reads Thomas Hobbes. Wonders about life and death. And other oldfashioned questions. He might be the last othe old school, but at the same time, he's pretty liberated too. A paradox. The politician's wife gets caught on videotape having sex with a young dude. He ain't her husband. Duhh. So, the tape falls into the hands of the opposition. Or so it seems. Spenser sorts it all out on a trip down to Washington. His clothes, his drinks, and his meals are all very much part of the scene. Back in Boston, he confronts the bad guys in their own den. It all comes together in the last chapters. Anais Nin once said, "We see things not as they are but as we are." Spenser is a lot like that and it will all depend on you too as to how you like this book. I liked the style, but this sort of novel reminds me of "Naked Gun". You enjoy and forget. Go to it. Don't omit some Irish whisky. Or tea.

    • Spenser Reviewed

      by Charles L. Billingsley Sr. (Houston) - 2009-05-24  Rated 4 stars
      I was looking over some of the old Parker novels and saw three that I haven't read or don't remember reading. These are all great Spenser novels but they don't have the sparkle of the later ones. Missed more of Susan and Hawk.

    • Solid Spenser

      by Terri Ames (Deerborn, Michigan) - 2007-06-21  Rated 4 stars
      Another lively book in the Spenser series. Not great, but very good.

    • Quick & dirty

      by K. Sozaeva (Athens, GA USA) - 2007-06-12  Rated 4 stars
      Spenser is hired to watch over a Senatorial candidate in this short book. Meade Alexander is a true-blue fundamentalist Christian and his adoring wife is the perfect politician's wife - beautiful and poised. But, as it turns out, she has a dark secret. She tends to get drunk and commit . . . indiscretions. Meade, as it turns out, is being blackmailed, and he asks Spenser to find a way to stop it. Meade does not want his wife to ever know about the blackmail, or even to find out that he knows about her indiscretions. Spenser unravels the threads that lead him to a drug ring and what appears to be a flourishing black-mail circle. Pulling on the loose threads brings him, unfortunately, to the attention of some very dangerous people. Spenser is off-balance through a good deal of this book, as Susan Silverman is away, working on her doctorate and this leaves Spenser feeling like he is without his center. A strong showing in the Spenser story line.

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