Sudden Mischief

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Spenser comes to the aid of his ladylove, Susan, and finds himself in the midst of a deadly conspiracy in Róbert B. Parker's masterful new thriller. "Parker's finest in years ... one can't-put-itdown story. Again," proclaimed the San Francisco Chronicle of Róbert B. Parker's most reeentAfcw York Times best-seller, Small Vices. "Nobody does it better," eheered Publishers Weekly in a starred review. And The Washington Post Book World said,"Small Vices deserves instant inclusion in the Spenser canon." In Sudden Mischief, Parker's stouthearted hero unwillingly takes a case that tests his sleuthing skills-and his commitment to the woman he loves. Brad Sterling-former Harvard football player, ne'er-do-well, and Susan Silverman's long-out-of-touch ex-husband-is, by all appearances, a successful businessman. But when he is charged with sexual harassment in the course of running a vast fund-raiser called Galapalooza, he turns to Susan for help. Though Brad denies the charge, he's desperate,... Tovább

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Spenser comes to the aid of his ladylove, Susan, and finds himself in the midst of a deadly conspiracy in Róbert B. Parker's masterful new thriller. "Parker's finest in years ... one can't-put-itdown story. Again," proclaimed the San Francisco Chronicle of Róbert B. Parker's most reeentAfcw York Times best-seller, Small Vices. "Nobody does it better," eheered Publishers Weekly in a starred review. And The Washington Post Book World said,"Small Vices deserves instant inclusion in the Spenser canon." In Sudden Mischief, Parker's stouthearted hero unwillingly takes a case that tests his sleuthing skills-and his commitment to the woman he loves. Brad Sterling-former Harvard football player, ne'er-do-well, and Susan Silverman's long-out-of-touch ex-husband-is, by all appearances, a successful businessman. But when he is charged with sexual harassment in the course of running a vast fund-raiser called Galapalooza, he turns to Susan for help. Though Brad denies the charge, he's desperate, behind in alimony and child support to (Continuedonbackflap) 9803
(Continuedfrom frontflap) other exes, and on the verge of dissolution. When Spenser reluctantly agrees to the cáse, he finds Brad denies everything. Sterling claims everything is fine-he is free of debt and free of problems. While the harassment charge begins to look more and more specious, Spenser begins to sense there is something wrong with Galapalooza, when leads to charities turn into dead ends. Susan, meanwhile, becomes steadily more problematic as she wrestles with demons reinvigorated by the resurrection of her ex-husband. As the questions mount, Brad disappears, a body is found, and a shadowy mob connection begins to coalesce. Spenser finds himself fighting a two-front war: against somé very bad men on the one hand, and an increasingly difficult Susan, struggling with her own resurrection, on the other. Dark, contemplative, and morally complex, Sudden Mischief is a brilliant meditation on the meaning of justice, love, and passión. Róbert B. Parker is the author of more than twenty-nine books, including the recent bestsellers Night Passage and Small Vices. He lives in Boston. Vissza