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Back Story
by Robert B. Parker
Spencer is back, and he hasn't lost a step. Terrific!
Robert B. Parker's wisecracking Boston private detective Spencer returns in
Back Story, and he's been recruited to look into a very cold case. The mother of his client had been killed during a bank holdup in 1974, by a group of young leftists called the Dread Scott Brigade. It seems to be a tragic instance of someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But when Spencer starts nosing about, an FBI report on the incident is missing, and toughs from a local crime family are pressuring him to lay off the case. What's the connection? With the inevitable and inscrutable Hawk as backup, Spencer's quest for clues takes him to California and back to Boston in a tale of official cover- ups and multiple levels of family secrets. Along the way, Spencer runs into Black radicals, hippie dopesters and the usual assortment of good and bad thugs. When Spencer's love, Susan Silverman is threatened, he goes into high gear.
Though this is the 30th novel in the series, Spencer and Hawk haven't slowed down at all, and Susan's ageless beauty is as alluring as ever. Fans of these stories will recognize other familiar characters and locales in Back Story, which is, nevertheless, one of the more intricate Spencer mysteries in years. If the denouement seems a bit anticlimactic, so be it. It is the dialog in the Spencer stories varyingly witty, romantic, or hard nosed that keeps readers coming back for more.
Title: Back Story
Author: Robert B. Parker
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 0399149775
Review written by: William Keogan
Reviewer's Rating:8
Reader's Rating: 9.23
Reader's Votes: 16
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