Thin Air

A Spenser Novel

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: David Dukes

When the bride of a Boston police detective vanishes, he hires Spenser to find her. His path leads from a New England college campus to glamorous L.A. sports clubs. When the trail turns to a world of prostitution, drug abuse, and self-destruction, Spenser must enter ghetto tenements to continue his search. Ultimately, Spenser must hire a Chicago hitman to help him free the girl from a sociopathic ex lover. Working through gang leaders and corrupt cops, Spenser learns about humanity and justice as he strives to achieve his goal.©2005 Robert B. Parker (P)2005 Phoenix Books, Inc.

great stuff

very good not long enough. First we have heard by David dukes. Different voice makes it not the same,,,,,,,,

David Dukes nailed it.

A great book by RBP and Dukes’ best Spenser narration yet. Susan was typical Susan lovely yet too talkative but hardly to the point of being annoying which she can have a tendency to be in other books. Was great to see Cholo again and experience the characters of Belsen and Quirk continuing to be fleshed out.
My first book in this series was Hugger Mugger over a decade ago. I had just checked everything the library had to offer in the series. Not long after I got Audible and started the series from book 1. Pacing myself as to enjoy Robert B Parker’s Spenser for as long as possible.
This book was referenced in several more recent books I had read previously which was part of the inspiration to read them all in order.
Great book, highly recommended.

Vintage

This book is one of the top three Vintage Robert B Parker I loved every minute.

Bad reader

Very flawed reader. Good voice for Spenser, couple of the others, but some really bad choices for others: Luis, Latino, sounding like he had a Russian or Eastern European accent; Boston cops with New York accents; Susan sounds ridiculous, very flighty which she isn’t; Samuelson in LA sounding like he’s from Wyoming. Also pronounced some names and words incorrectly, e.g. Haverill Mass. Is pronounced Hayve-erill, not Hayver-hill.

Good story, voice is very different

Would you consider the audio edition of Thin Air to be better than the print version?

I have really enjoyed Michael Pritchard's reading - I think he captured the dry wit of Robert B. Parker's writing. This reading makes Spencer sound more like Philip Marlow and I was not comfortable with the change. The witty remarks did not come across as well.

What did you like best about this story?

The story.

Did David Dukes do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Yes, but Spencer is not Philip Marlow. The reader lost the dry humor of many of Spencer's lines.