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Review title: The Beginning of the End
Product review: This sprawling, widely improbable yarn is the demarcation point between the lean, muscular early Spenser novels and the later, weaker novels in the series. Spenser and Susan are separated, but when she finds herself in trouble, Spenser rushes to the rescue. At 384 pages, the novel dwarfs earlier entries in the series, but this is not the mark of ambition. It is diffuse and unfocused. Compare it to novels like Mortal Stakes and the flawed, but powerful, Promised Land - it suffers greatly. This novel is saved from one star by my familiarity with the characters and his abiding ability to invoke a fictional milieu.
