Promised Land

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost his pretty wife -- and a very pretty quarter million bucks in real estate. Now a loan shark is putting on the bite.Spenser finds himself doing a slow burn in the Cape Cod sun. The wife has turned up as a hot suspect in a case of murder one...the in-hock hubby has 24 hours before the mob makes him dead...and suddenly Spenser is in so deep that the only way out is so risky it makes dying look like a sure thing.
"Spenser is the sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read private eye around today." (The Cincinnati Post)©1987 Robert B. Parker; (P)2009 Random House

Spenser and Hawk

It’s hard to believe that Burt Reynolds is incapable of pronouncing library… He pronounces it without the first hour…libury.

Spencer does evolve!

I do not read the Spencer books in order. So when I read this book some things fell into place...his relationship with Suzan for one and how his relationship with Hawk was cultivated!

Nostalgia

Having read all of Parker's Spenser novels, I listened to this to remind me how the series started. Interesting how he changed the character and hilarious how he describes what was considered "cool" back in the '70s.

Spenser on the cusp

Enjoyed the novel. I had not read it in awhile, so it was like reading /hearing for first time. Very good novel. Very good performance. Spenser handles love problems for a couple and handles personal love issues. All the while handling guns and zealots.

a very good read

Found it very interesting how a book written almost 50 years ago can ce so relevant even today. The philosophy, politics, inner human conflicts, and marital relations. Struggles and lessons we as a society continue to struggle have not changed very much.