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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second Spenser novel in a row, and the only two I've<br/>read, where Spenser is shot and seriously injured.  They were<br/>written 13 years apart.  Interesting book with an emphasis<br/>on justice.  A young prosecutor feels she mishandled a case<br/>and her client was unjustly convic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50503416">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Found a first edition at the thrift store for a buck. ($1.06 with tax.) So what the hell.<br/><br/>Meatier than the most recent Spenser novels, and we only get one extended kitchen sequence. (&quot;I sliced the Venezuelan beaver cheese that I get from a guy who lives in a refrigerator crate under ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79205229">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent; Continuing character: Spenser; he is hired to get a black career criminal convicted of murder of white preppie student out of prison, if he's innocent; in doing so, Spenser comes up against a killer who almost does him in.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm usually eventually opposed to authors this prolific but I got to say, I like the main character and the others as well. They're fun. I'll probably keep reading them.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Stumbled across this author again for the 1st time a year or so ago.  I am in the process of reading all of his Spenser Novels.  All of his books are good.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[spenser<br/>i actualy bought this paperback at Bookman's in Flagstaff right before getting on the plane back to LAX&gt;<br/>good read about the grey man.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another writer of solid crime novels.  Sparse prose.  You can always count on his to be a good read.  His westerns are also good.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[SMALL VICES - Ex<br/>Parker, Robert - 24th in Spencer series<br/><br/>Ellis Alves is no angel. But his lawyer says he was framed for the murder of college student Melissa Henderson...and asks Spenser for help.<br/><br/>From Boston's back streets to Manhattan's elite, Spenser and Hawk search for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35970495">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I understand exactly why Parker was pleased this book was chosen to 'reintroduce' a non-Urich Spenser on the world. It's an excellent novel, full of all the twists, turns and dead-ends any good mystery should have, and what I find to be Parker's excellent turn of phrase.<br/><br/>Ah, if only they ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52594539">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good Spenser Book]]></body>
    
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