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Title: Thin Air by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0-425-15290-1 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: April, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: so so
Comment: Spenser gets a call from police friend Frank Belsen to look for his missing wife. Along the way, Spenser and Susan go to LA to uncover some background info, and pick up a Hispanic sidekick named Chollo. I didn't understand what motivated Chollo to join Spenser back to the east coast to finish the job, but Spenser needed him as Hawk is MIA in this book. Chollo wasn't nearly as entertaining as Hawk, but the basic premise of the book was pretty good.
Rating: 4
Summary: Quite good if you're familiar with the characters
Comment: I wouldn't recommend this as a first Spenser book. In fact I'd suggest going to "The Godwulf Manuscript" at the very beginning of the series.
Be that as it may, it is a rewarding read for those familiar with the characters. Especially rewarding is the re-introduction of Cholla who we met briefly in "Stardust".
Parker varies his narrative style this time out. The perspective switches back and forth between the victim Lisa, who's police detective Belson's young wife, and Spenser, so we can see when Spenser gets on the wrong track and when he gets back on the right one.
This isn't quite the best Parker, but it's good and worth your while if you're a Spenser fan.
Rating: 4
Summary: Spenser and a new sidekick look for Belson's wife
Comment: When "Thin Air" begins with the italicized description of a woman bound in the back of a van, abducted by someone who knows her and is videotaping everything, it is reminiscent of Robert B. Parker's "Crimson Joy," the first Spenser novel to get away from the first person narrative style of the series. When Detective Frank Belson shows up and tells our hero that his wife is gone, we know the identity of the woman in the van. As far as her husband is concerned, Lisa St. Claire has disappeared into "Thin Air" (Parker has been much more mundane with his titles in his recent efforts and it has been years since he started off with any grandiose literary quotations). Each Spenser novel is unique in its own way and for this one the main trick is that we know what has happened to the damsel in distress and we get to watch as our hero gets closer and closer. Belson does not know anything about his wife before the fateful night they met, and, of course, Spenser uncovers a whole lot of information. But what looks like the old story of the beautiful young wife who leaves her older husband is shattered when Belson is ambushed and almost killed.
Whereas the previous Spenser novel dealt with Chinatown, "Thin Air" focuses on the Hispanic elements in the greater Boston area, which forces Spenser to use the assistance of Chollo, the enforcer for the L.A. mobster we met in "Stardust" (Hawk is in Burma--the mind boggles). But while most of the usual supporting cast is not around for this one, Spenser certainly meets a couple of interesting women in the course of his investigation (although I find it strange that Quirk is not a lot more involved in this one). Once again Spenser tries to put all the pieces together and then find a way of making everybody happy, but as usual, things never do work out perfectly. While certainly an atypical Spenser novel, "Thin Air" probably grades out as an average effort for Parker
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Title: Double Deuce by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425137937 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Stardust by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425127230 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Walking Shadow by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425147746 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Paper Doll by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425141551 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Pastime by Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425132935 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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