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Title: fast flowing hard boiled drama, with real characters
Review: The idea of fictionalizing a plausible scenario involving real, historical characters makes for a great book, and Parker certainly knows how to write a lively tale. A war hero comes home from WWII, recovering from wounds and a Dear John letter. He gets a job working as a bodyguard for a rich man, protecting his daughter. Then he gets another job to protect Jackie Robinson. Between baseball action, we get a lot of "Spenser-like" hardboiled action involving guts and very little extraneous talk. Any fan of the Spenser series will love this book.
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