The Widening Gyre
Hired as security man for Alexander's election campaign, Spenser checks out blackmail concerning the politician's wife. Aided by sidekick Hawk, and surrogate son Paul Giacomin, he is sucked into political ambition, corruption, violence, and the truth about his relationship with Susan Silverman.
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Hired as security man for Alexander's election campaign, Spenser checks out blackmail concerning the politician's wife. Aided by sidekick Hawk, and surrogate son Paul Giacomin, he is sucked into political ambition, corruption, violence, and the truth about his relationship with Susan Silverman.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780440195351 (0440195357)
Publish date: June 1st 1992
Publisher: Dell
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Mystery,
Detective,
Politics,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Hard Boiled
Series: Spenser 4 (#10)
Not my favourite Spenser title, but still enjoyable. I enjoy how the character and his relationships actually evolve and change. Those aspects were the highlights here more than the mystery.
When a state representative is getting blackmailed with a film of his wife having sex with another man, he hires Spenser to get to the bottom of things for him. But when Spenser learns the man's identity, he's bitten off more than he can chew, especially with him preoccupied with Susan Silverman bei...
Pretty good book with the subject as timely today as ever: corruption and hypocrisy in politics.Spenser's doing some introspection here, in fact, a lot more than usual. He doing some self examination since Susan is moving forward with getting her Ph.D. in psychology and Spenser resents her being a...
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