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Looking for Rachel Wallace: Spenser, Book 6
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Looking for Rachel Wallace: Spenser, Book 6

Written by Robert B. Parker

Narrated by Michael Prichard

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --The Cincinnati Post

Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself." --The Boston Globe

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 14, 2009
ISBN9780307705150
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Looking for Rachel Wallace: Spenser, Book 6
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Robert B. Parker

Robert B Parker was the best-selling author of over 60 books, including Small Vices, Sudden Mischief, Hush Money, Hugger Mugger, Potshot, Widows Walk, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise, Death in Paradise, Family Honor, Perish Twice, Shrink Rap, Stone Cold, Melancholy Baby, Back Story, Double Play, Bad Business, Cold Service, Sea Change, School Days and Blue Screen. He died in 2010 at the age of 77.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Along with Early Autumn, one of his very best.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Rachel Wallace is not the easiest person to get along with. Prickly is a mild description. Due to her stand on Feminism, her outspoken Lesbianism, and the fact that she has written a book naming names of those who practice unequality in the workplace, she needs a bodyguard. The last thing she wants in her life is a macho, smart-aleck bodyguard. Introducing Spencer. He is all that, but he is also more if you have eyes to see.Spencer is a thoughtful man who hides behind a wise-cracking exterior (my favorite kind of hero). The issues in the book were tough. Feminism, lesbianism, human rights and what makes up the identity of a man. It could all have been trite or preachy, but it never was.As for the mystery, well, it was more of a noir crime novel than a mystery. Some great literary references in there, and new word or two to me. This is an author I am happy to have found, and I look forward to reading more of his books.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I liked the story of this installment of the Spenser series. Spenser is involved in protecting a radical feminist. She fires him, then gets kidnapped, and finding out who has her takes Spense down some interesting paths.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    An early Spenser story. I think it is set in the late 70's, and a snow emergency that shuts down Boston is part of the story. I lived in Boston when a blizzard occurred that pretty much shut down the city for a day or two. The story sort of put me in a nostalgic frame of mind. Regarding the book and Spenser, he is a bit over the top for me(super-macho tough and smart and sensitive, my god, he even cries after he kills people.) I have an image in mind that may have no basis in reality of the author being mildly obese and I tend to focus on how Spenser is a pretty serious foody.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is the first book I have read in the Spenser series. The book was well written and suspenseful and I will have to try another volume to see if the shortcomings I found are isolated to this book or present throughout the series. Spenser in this book is acting as a bodyguard for Rachel Wallace. Rachel Wallace is a writer and a self proclaimed lesbian radical feminist. Her publisher has hired a bodyguard for her, against her wishes, because she is receiving death threats associated with the publication of a new book. Her new book is an expose of discrimination against women which names prominent business people and their misogynist attitudes and actions. The threats are signed by a right wing group which calls itself RAM (Restore American Morality).Spenser went from being a boxer to his present occupation. As he describes it he was a good but not great boxer. That meant he could make a living at it but it would not be worth the physical cost to him. He is very direct with an irreverent sense of humor. Ms. Wallace has very little sense of humor. She makes that clear at their first meeting which to say the least does not go well. She fires Spenser after an incident at the offices of First Mutual Insurance. Ms. Wallace is there to speak with a group of women to talk about her book. As soon as the men in charge find out who she is they call security to have her thrown out. She wants to make it hard for them by going limp so they will have to physically remove her. Spenser escorts her out and after they have a short discussion he is terminated. Then Rachel Wallace was kidnapped.Spenser is called by her publisher and starts investigating. He gets a lead and as he is going to interview a KKK grand dragon he is beat up by four of the dragon's friends. Then he goes back and starts beating people up. First is the grand dragon and next is Mingo who hired two guys to run Wallace and Spenser off the road before she fired him. Very soon Spenser finds Rachel Wallace in the attic of the rich people's house. Two guys come up the attic stairs with guns and Spenser shoots them. One guy gets two in the head and the other guy gets his in the throat. Then Spenser has to knock out an elderly rich woman to keep her from trying to bite him. There is plenty of suspense at the end and Rachel Wallace tells Spenser she felt good when he shot her kidnappers. What struck me was that Spenser said nothing about killing two people. He didn't try to disable them he just killed them and put his gun away. The book was well written, moved well and there was a good plot twist at the end. It didn't bother me that Spenser killed the kidnappers I just felt that what he did was close to murder.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The first Spenser book I read. I still remember whodunit.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Stright-forward, thick-ear, mystery. The writing is assured and the characters are strong in this entertaining page-turner.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Explores some issues that you don't commonly see in this sort of noir fiction. Tough guy Spenser is hired as a bodyguard to a militant feminist, and I must say I thought the feminist was right in character as well as spot-on with her analysis of Spenser's behavior as a protective alpha male. As well, Spenser, who is a live-and-let-live kind of guy, gets exactly as uncomfortable with his client's homosexual proclivities as I would have expected. Nicely handled. Who would have thought you'd get this sort of character sketch in a little potboiler like this?