THE WIDENING GYRE: A SPENSER NOVEL by Robert B. Parker
THE WIDENING GYRE by Robert B. Parker
First sentence…
I was nursing a bottle of Murphy’s Irish Whiskey, drinking it from the neck of the bottle sparingly, and looking down from the window of my office at Berkeley Street where it crosses Boylston.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Spenser is hired to find who is blackmailing Meade Alexander. Meade is a congressman running for the Senate. He’s happily married. Meade’s a law and order guy. The most important thing in his life is he’s a Christian. Meade’s as All-American as apple pie and baseball. Meade’s also being blackmailed. But not because of anything he’s done.
Ronni, Meade’s wife caused the problem. There’s video of her having sex with college boys. Lots of video. And she’s into it.
Meade wants the problem to go away. If the video gets out, his campaign is finished. Spenser agrees to take the job, not so much for Meade, but because of Ronni. As Spenser digs deeper he discovers so heavy hitters in the Boston underworld are involved.
Yikes!
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Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels have always been required purchases for me. Parker and Spenser never disappoint.
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