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Title: The Old West thru a Parker shaped filter
Review: I'm a long time Parker fan and even had a chance to meet himsometime back. In my view, he's one of our greatest living writers and the Spenser series simply has to rank as one of the finest detective series ever.After reading everything he's written in the last thirty or soyears it's hard not to see some familiar themes come up throughout the books.Honor, friendship, commitment, and love are all Parker mainstays and some people would say cliches.You could make a case that the characters of Cole and Hitch areSpenser and Hawk in different clothes. (Or Gus and Call from Lonesome Dove ,for that matter) All that aside, Parker has written a gritty, straight foward tale of the West with his usual ear for dialogue, humor , and compassion. No surprises for Parker fans like myself but, a good, strong book about people doing the right thing and standing up for what they believe in.
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