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Book 10 of 41 in the Spenser Series
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  • Series: Spenser (Book 10)
  • Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Dell (June 1, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0440195357
  • ISBN-13: 978-0440195351
  • Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 0.5 x 6.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (106 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,411 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsSensitive
By Harmoni on January 20, 2000
Format: Mass Market Paperback
This is the 10th book in the Spenser series.
Spenser is hired as a guard on the U.S. Senate campaign of ultra-Christian Meade Alexander. He soon finds out that Alexander is being blackmailed with the threat of making public a video of his wife in bed with a young man. Alexander truly loves his wife and would rather give up his political aspirations than humiliate her.
Susan is in the midst of a one-year internship in Washington D.C. for her Ph.D. Spenser goes to D.C. on his case and finds Susan different in significant ways. "Her face was as it had always been: intricate, beautiful, expressive. In the last year somehow it had also become faintly remote, as if always she were listening to a whisper, barely audible, from someplace else: her name, maybe, tiny and hushed."
Spenser is also very sensitive concerning the middle-aged women he sees having sex with four "college boys" who are secretly taping the rendesvous. "These women were real, with the fine roughening of skin here and there, the tiny sag at the breast, the small folds across the stomach that real women, and men, have. . . . That kind of vulnerability shouldn't be handed around. It was for someone who loved you and was vulnerable too."
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4.0 out of 5 starsGetting hooked on Spenser
By Mark S. Winger on September 29, 2000
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I listened to the unabridged audio cassette of this book, while traveling around town. I prefer not to get the condensed versions of the books where you miss the development of the story and characters and get only the basics. While this book did get a little too sentimental, I have to say that it was for the better. To get the insight into Spenser and how he feels in lieu of always getting the stony detective that defeats all his enemies and solves the crime was interesting. I thought the story itself was intriguing. Okay it wasn't as complicated as plots can be, but I definitely didn't find my interest wandering. I have read one Spenser book and listened to a couple of others on tape, and I have to say that this book will keep me going. If you haven't read or listened to a Spenser book before I do not feel that you will be lost out jumping into this one.
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4.0 out of 5 starsQuick & dirty
By Amazon Customer VINE VOICE on June 12, 2007
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Spenser is hired to watch over a Senatorial candidate in this short book. Meade Alexander is a true-blue fundamentalist Christian and his adoring wife is the perfect politician's wife - beautiful and poised. But, as it turns out, she has a dark secret. She tends to get drunk and commit . . . indiscretions. Meade, as it turns out, is being blackmailed, and he asks Spenser to find a way to stop it. Meade does not want his wife to ever know about the blackmail, or even to find out that he knows about her indiscretions.

Spenser unravels the threads that lead him to a drug ring and what appears to be a flourishing black-mail circle. Pulling on the loose threads brings him, unfortunately, to the attention of some very dangerous people.

Spenser is off-balance through a good deal of this book, as Susan Silverman is away, working on her doctorate and this leaves Spenser feeling like he is without his center.

A strong showing in the Spenser story line.
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4.0 out of 5 starsI'M JUST A VOYEURISTIC INTERLOPER!!!
By Greggorio! on June 18, 2013
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As this book commences, Spenser is sitting at his desk, contemplating life, the universe and everything when an old acquaintance walks in and offers him security work for a man running for congress. It turns out that said congressman is a devout Christian and of course by definition he has his fair share of enemies before he even starts. Spenser agrees to the job and five chapters into the book, he starts to earn his pay. Thugs turn up to intimidate some college kids and it is Spenser to the rescue but he knows as well as the reader does that said thugs are nothing but an omen of things to come.

As i progress through this series, I feel less like a fan of detective fiction, and more of a voyeuristic interloper into the private life of two people determined to be true to each other in a complicated world. Of course that is a nonsense but it is essentially the interaction between Spenser and his highly intellectual hottie girlfriend that makes me keep coming back. Of course when I am there (in Boston) I love every minute, every witticism and every right hook and uppercut that lands on the chin of the baddies and this book has its fair share of such interactions.

But then the story proper starts. The plot thickens, it twists, and turns, and you are suddenly hooked into one of the freshest and most original Spenser novels in years. Without ruining the surprise, suspects abound, Spenser is on the hunt, and the game is afoot. The tone of this novel is quite serious. Spenser is acting alone as Susan is out of town and there has been no sight nor sound of Hawk. Foster son Paul Giacoman drops in for thanksgiving and takes over Susan's role as temporary deep thinker which breaks up the monotony of the case, for a few brief moments.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe master of mysteries does it again.
By Dallas Gorham on June 2, 2015
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I have always been a fan of Robert B. Parker's ever since I read Appaloosa many years ago. I am now going back and re-reading all of his Spencer mysteries as textbooks on how to write. As a new mystery writer myself, I can always learn from the master.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

He is as good as it gets

Published 6 days ago by Charles W. Binford
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Good book.

Published 19 days ago by George Black
1.0 out of 5 starsBull

The book is too contrived, and quite short. It seems that Parker just sat back, and use a simple formula for writing a story. Read more

Published 29 days ago by Sanford G.
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

A GREAT man and author who is definitely missed!

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good read.

Published 1 month ago by Granville Wright
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ok

Published 1 month ago by margaret wandless
3.0 out of 5 starsSpenser treads lightly in a case of sex blackmail - nothing special

“Gyre” is one of the earlier Spenser novels (#10 of 39) that takes place when Susan is in Washington DC serving her internship. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Jerry Bull
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book as usual.

Love the relationship between Spencer and Susan and how it develops throughout th book. At first the plot seems superficial, only Parker has a way of nuances with with few words... Read more

Published 5 months ago by susan stopczynski
5.0 out of 5 starsFollow all on on a new adventure.

Same colorful characters. Lovely new mystery.

Published 5 months ago by Inshadeoftree
5.0 out of 5 stars... I found very new to the Spencer character would recommend this...

Very enjoyable and although it had several new and different twist which I found very new to the Spencer character would recommend this book.

Published 5 months ago by Neil adams

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