The Judas Goat
Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers who've blown away his client's wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn't choosy.But there are nine killers to one Spenser -- long odds. Hawk helps balance the equation....
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Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers who've blown away his client's wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn't choosy.But there are nine killers to one Spenser -- long odds. Hawk helps balance the equation. The rest depends on a wild plan. Spenser will get one of the terrorists to play Judas Goat -- to lead him to others. Trouble is, he hasn't counted on her being very blond, very beautiful and very dangerous.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780440141969 (0440141966)
Publish date: 1992-06-01
Publisher: Dell Books
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Politics,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Action,
Suspense,
Hard Boiled
Series: Spenser 4 (#5)
...I looked at my situation. If they were going to shoot me, there was little to prevent them. Maybe they weren’t going to shoot me, but I couldn’t plan much on that. “You can’t plan on the enemy’s intentions,” I said. “You have to plan on what he can do, not what he might.” A boy cleaning the t...
Spenser goes globe-trotting. It’s a jammy gig too; money no object, first class air travel, the best hotels….except he’s got to track down nine members of the terrorist group “Liberty” whose collateral bomb damage included the family of money-bags Hugh Dixon. It also means Spenser has to spend time ...
Spenser and Hawk team up for the first time.On the 5th stroke (aka, 5th book in the Spenser Series) the magic was broken...This novel never really grabbed me like so many of the other Spenser novels. I think a lot of it comes from the terrorist setting, but I could never really put my finger on it. ...