- Hardcover: 311 pages
- Publisher: Delacorte Press; First Edition edition (May 1 1985)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385293852
- ISBN-13: 978-0385293853
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #547,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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IT WAS NEARLY MIDNIGHT AND I WAS JUST GETTING home from detecting. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
unbelievable,
By sheba (los angeles, california USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Catskill Eagle (Mass Market Paperback)
this book is the worst spenser book. his own fantasies of love have impaired his ability to write. the relationship between spenser and susan would entitle both of them major psychiatric diagnoses and the action/adventure is of mythical proportion....come on parker, you can do better than this
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Catskill Screenplay?,
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This review is from: A Catskill Eagle (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm in the process of reading all of the Spenser novels, and so far this is the most unusual. Unlike other Parker novels, which feature somewhat realistic settings and situations, Catskill is wildly unbelievable -- more like a Bond movie than anything else. Spenser and Hawk actually start a small war in weapons installation!A welcome change in this book is the fairly limited appearance of the hateful Susan Silverman; whose actions in this book make you wonder why Spenser doesn't end their relationship -permenantly. Generally speaking, Parker's greatest weakness as an author is his writing of women. Both Rachael Wallace and Silverman's dialogue is more like Mr. Spock than any female I've ever met. Fortunately we are spared the inevitable three page chapters in which Susan expounds on Spenser's motivations or some other character's. But Parker knows this isn't his strength, because I've been skipping those chapters lately, and it doesn't hurt the story at all!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
The beginning of the end for Spenser...,
By A Customer
This review is from: A Catskill Eagle (Mass Market Paperback)
Bad, bad, bad. Spenser goes pretentious and boring. After an interesting beginning, things (and the length of the book) spin out of control, as Spenser finds Susan again and makes up. Ever since, they've been gag-reflex inducing lovebirds... Still, the worst part of this book is the finale. Spenser becomes Bond, invades an underground base (all the while soul-searching himself endlessly), wraps things up before you know it and very unspectacularly, and goes out again. Pointless and ridiculous - and totally at odds with the attempts at greater profundity. Things were never the same after this... unfortunately.
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