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God Save the Child (1974)

by Robert B. Parker

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Series: Spenser (2)

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Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away--until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture: an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends ... friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy's life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too.… (more)
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This novel irritated me to no end. Parker apes Chandler, and I suppose there is something to be said for his attempt to convey a sense of time and place in 1970s Boston suburbia. But Parker does not really have anything to say; the mystery is underwhelming and Parker has a weird fixation with dads not being there for their sons or something. ( )
  jklugman | Mar 14, 2023 |
More of the same from Spenser in this book, with lots of wisecracking, flirting, and a little fighting. The usual fun, it seems.

The story was interesting, with a few twists toward the end, and the solution was not obvious. It went quickly, and I was done before I started, almost. ( )
  MartyFried | Oct 9, 2022 |
God Save the Child is Parker's second Spenser story. This is where Spenser meets his long time love interest Susan Silverman. It seems a bit dated for 2016 since Parker wrote it in 1974. There are flared pants and unbuttoned shirts and medallions on chains but it still makes a good story. ( )
  MMc009 | Jan 30, 2022 |
Pretty good, ending felt a little meh ( )
  pzhorton4 | Nov 29, 2021 |
Some of the early Spenser novels are such realistic representations of the time in which they are set that it is difficult to accept the story. In this one, Spenser is hired to find a missing boy. He soons discovers that the family is such a mess that any intelligent individual would run away. This book does have the trademark Spenser snarkiness which I love, but the story wasn't my face. ( )
  DrApple | Apr 30, 2021 |
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Robert B. Parkerprimary authorall editionscalculated
Arnold, EikeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dijk, Peter vanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Franke, PeterCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hilling, SimoneTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Prichard, MichaelNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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This is for My Mother and Father.
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If you leaned way back in the chair and cranked your neck hard over you could see the sky from my office window, delft blue and cloudless and so bright it looked solid.
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Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away--until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture: an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends ... friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy's life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too.

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