![]() Killing and screwing have their place but there are other alternatives." The smiles are few, however, and the expected Parker texture nil. ![]() ![]() He says to the nymphomaniac moll who reluctantly leads him to Montreal, where the gang is about to be evil at the Olympics: "Kathie, you gotta find some other way to relate with people. True, Parker always writes a zippy page and Spenser's humor surfaces here and there. But worse yet, Spenser's lady Susan-who's been so attractively integrated in previous cases-is brought centerstage so that Spenser can go through some embarrassingly mawkish Hey-babe-I-love-you stuff. Not only is he caught in a second-rate, linear plot (hired by a rich American to hunt down the rightist, racist terrorists whose bomb killed his family and put him in a wheelchair). Not only is the Boston private eye out of place in London and other European capitals. ![]()
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