Spenser is back. After being absent from Robert B. Parker’s novels for several years, Boston’s favorite private detective returns, but this time around he’s playing Wyatt Earp in the Wild Wild West.
Ok maybe it’s a stretch to call the little Arizona town of Potshot wild – its more a cozy retreat for the L.A. wealthy but there has been a murder and there is a band of thugs, and when you add Spenser to the mix you definitely have one hopping town and one rollicking book.
A former boxer, standing Six-One, Spenser weighs in at 200 iron-pumped pounds. Women fling themselves against him only to find that unlike former PI hero’s, he is steadfastly loyal to his lifetime girlfriend, Susan Silverman. He is a violent man but governed by a strict code of ethics. In Spenser’s world, political correctness often comes under satirical attack, yet a multicultural cast of characters reveals Parker’s own brand of social consciousness.
(Hosted by Christopher Lydon)
Guests:
Robert Parker, author.