![]() ![]() He is endangered by the loonies and their lackies, but he finds a way out, despite being severely beaten in one scene. He uses his connections in the Boston Police Department, Belson and Quirk, to look for her in ways that the police cannot. Spenser admits that "she might be right" about this. Rachel fires Spenser because he is too violent in one scene, a corporate setting in which he manhandles a couple of corporate goofballs. Spenser may be a tough guy on the outside and a cream puff inside, but the cream puff is available to us in a very guarded and controlled way. The relationship between Spenser and Susan is once again so tender that you feel deeply for both of them. ![]() The resistance to same sex marriage in the current news is essentially predicted by Parker here. Rachel is kidnapped by some loony "Ritz crackers," in Spenser's words, but these people are very far off at the extreme right wing of this country, deeply bigoted and intolerant to their bones. I don't know how long ago this book was published, but Parker speaks to issues that are so current and so controversial that they could be in the news now. I don't want to say too much about the plot, but I will say a little. She is personally reluctant to hire such a macho guy, but she needs him. Her publisher hires Spenser to be her bodyguard, as she has received death threats for her views. Rachel Wallace is a lesbian feminist who writes books and names names, and gets vilified for speaking her mind. ![]()
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