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    Pale Kings and Princes: A Spenser Novel, Book 14

    Written by Robert B. Parker

    Narrated by Michael Prichard

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    About this audiobook

    "Ebullient entertainment."-Time

    A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at "Miami North"-little Wheaton, Massachusetts-the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line.

    Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?

    Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 14, 2009
    ISBN9780307705310
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    Pale Kings and Princes: A Spenser Novel, Book 14
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    Robert B. Parker

    Robert B Parker was the best-selling author of over 60 books, including Small Vices, Sudden Mischief, Hush Money, Hugger Mugger, Potshot, Widows Walk, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise, Death in Paradise, Family Honor, Perish Twice, Shrink Rap, Stone Cold, Melancholy Baby, Back Story, Double Play, Bad Business, Cold Service, Sea Change, School Days and Blue Screen. He died in 2010 at the age of 77.

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    • 5/5
      Cocaine and small town prejudice make for an edgy environment for Spenser to operate.
    • 4/5
      There are just some things you know you can count on. You know your driver’s license photo will make you look like an axe-murderer. You know a dropped piece of toast will land jelly-side down. And you know that a Robert B. Parker Spenser novel will give you a solid read.‘Pale Kings and Princes’ is no different. Sent off to a small Massachusetts town to investigate the murder of a young reporter, Spenser quickly finds himself up to his neck in cocaine dealers, crooked cops, and people who aren’t quite telling the truth. How he gets past the not quite part and deals out his own particular kind of justice forms the backbone of the story. The usual cast of characters is on hand, the usual wry dialogue is spoken, and satisfaction happens all around.
    • 3/5
      The ending's inevitable, but still seems forced. Snappy dialog throughout, though; especially after Hawk joins the story.
    • 4/5
      Spenser is asked to look into the murder of a reporter who had been investigating drug sales in a small town in Massachusetts. He does what he usually does, asking questions and bothering people until he eventually figures out what is going on. Unfortunately, as usual, people die who would not have if he hadn't been doing what he usually does.
    • 3/5
      Pale Kings and Princes is the fourteenth of Robert B. Parker’s forty Spenser novels. The title comes from the poem La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats. In this book, Boston P.I. Spenser is hired by a local newspaper to investigate the murder of one of its reporters who had been looking into the drug smuggling industry in a small town in west central Massachusetts. When Spenser arrives in town, he finds that none of the local people want to talk to him and the local police are very uncooperative. With the assistance of an honest and competent state policeman and Spenser’s super macho buddy, Hawk, Spenser is able to solve the mystery of the reporter’s death, break up the drug-smuggling ring, and dispose of two very dishonest local cops. Before the final showdown with the drug dealers, Hawk suggests that the safest course of action would be to just shoot the dealers when they weren’t looking. Spenser replies:“Yes, But I can’t.”“I know you can’t. What I don’t know,” Hawk said, “is why you can’t.”“Remember those guys in Maine got busted for shooting bears in cages?” I said. “Didn’t get bit by the bear,” Hawk said.“Would you do it?” I said.“No,” Hawk said.I didn’t say anything.“The analogy sucks,” Hawk said.Thus, as always, Spenser maintains his knight errant code of ethics.Spenser’s girl friend, Susan Silverman, is not as cloying as she is in other Spenser novels, and plays an important role in this one. As all Parker novels, this is an easy read, but it does not stand out among the others. Nevertheless, it is a good companion for a long airplane ride. (JAB)
    • 2/5
      Substance: Coke dealers and crooked cops in Massachusetts.Style: The white space in this book makes it come to about half the nominal 256 pages. The trivial detail is boring. The hero is stupid. The language is "authentic."Will not be reading any more of these, despite their high acclaim by others.