Potshot (Spenser, #28)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780553702460 (0553702467)
Publish date: April 1st 2003
Publisher: RH Audio Price-less
Edition language: English
Series: Spenser 4 (#28)
One of the weaker Spenser novels, imo. It's basically Parker's version of a modern western, which should have made me love it. About halfway through, he starts to make it his update to The Magnificent Seven as Spenser travels around the country picking up some familiar thugs as his gang to take on t...
I've read most of the Spenser novels, but missed this one, and because I seem to be on a detective/crime novel binge, just plowed through it last night. First, let's be clear; it's an homage to The Seven Samurai (the Magnificent Seven, actually) and Parker does a good job of hinting at -- but obscur...