Double Deuce

A Spenser Novel

De: Robert B. Parker

Narrado por: David Dukes

Spenser is forced by loyalty into an alien world where violence is a way of lie and outsiders enter at a lethal risk. When Spenser's cohort, Hawk, is hired by the tenants of a gang-plagued Boston housing project known as "Double Deuce", he enlists his friend's aid.

A friend's girl and her infant daughter have been gunned down. Though the act at first appears to be an accidental drive-by shooting, it soon becomes clear that it was premeditated murder. Before they can solve the crime, Spenser and Hawk must take on an adolescent band of hardened urban warriors. As bullets fly and the brutality escalates, Spenser learns more than he ever dreamed about a generation imprisoned in a hell of poverty and hopelessness where muscle is the ticket to survival, and the surest way out is in a body bag.

Pulsing with moral complexity, Double Deuce is the kind of no-holds-barred action thriller only Robert B. Parker can create.

Crack another case with Spenser.©2005 Robert B. Parker (P)2005 Phoenix Books, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"The plot is nothing new - it might be described as Spenser meets New Jack City - but Deuce 's snappy dialogue, timely, fast-paced action and quick characterizations make it classic Spenser." (Publishers Weekly)

Spenser

Another we'll done Spenser tale. More background on Spenser, Susan, and Hawk. A story well told.

LOVE these books....DESPISE this narrator

I'm hooked on these books. I love the quick wit and the back and forth conversations. Spenser is a no bull kind of person that calls things the way he sees them and the books flow and roll very well. Even though these books were written 40 or more years ago they are still appealing. I have bought every one and listened to them and thoroughly enjoyed them until I started listening to David Dukes. By far the worst narrator ever. He makes the characters sound so ridiculous. I cannot believe how he makes Hawk sound and the female characters make me cringe. I'll keep listening until I get through the books that he reads but I just want to know WHY??? Why would you pick someone that is this bad to read these books?

Not filet mignon but an elegant dessert

To employ a food simile, Robert D Parker just books would not be classified as filet mignon or osso bucco; that is a different level of substance. Rather, they are like an elegant dessert, a fine crème brûlée or zabaglione. To be savored occasionally after a good meal. His books are intelligent, his dialogue superb – the only writer who frequently makes me laugh out loud. I appreciate - though many listeners may abhor - his “world view”.

Unlistenable narration

I enjoy Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels as a rule, but the narrator ruined this one for me. Susan Silverman in particular was given a weirdly exaggerated Kennedy-esque accent, and Hawk was also way off the mark. I couldn’t finish it.

Avoid this narrator

Would have enjoyed this a lot more if anyone, and I mean ANYONE, else would have narrated. The characters voices were affected, and the ethnic attempts were insulting. There was a good yarn here, but it was totally obscured by the extremly bad performance.