{"id":9417,"date":"2017-11-11T18:49:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T23:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=9417"},"modified":"2021-06-03T18:03:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T22:03:35","slug":"double-deuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9417","title":{"rendered":"Double Deuce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Double Deuce<\/a><\/em> (1992) Robert B Parker<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Since I disliked the narrator so much when he read the last book, I’m switching to reading the ebooks until … Well, it would be Chance, but the library doesn’t have it, so it looks like it’ll be Small Vices<\/em>, the first Spenser book I came across, and one of my favorites. (I don’t believe I want to spend my audible credit on Chance.)<\/p>\n

But we’re talking about Double Deuce<\/em> here. Hawk is asked to stop gang murders in a housing project, so he asks Spenser for help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI might need some support,\u201d Hawk said. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou might?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah. Pay\u2019s lousy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cHow much?\u201d I said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m getting nothing.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll take half,\u201d I said. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou ain\u2019t worth half,\u201d Hawk said. \u201cBesides I got the job and already put in a lot of time on it. Give you a third.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cCheap bastard,\u201d I said. <\/p>\n

\u201cTake it or leave it,\u201d Hawk said. <\/p>\n

\u201cOkay,\u201d I said, \u201cyou got me over a barrel. I\u2019m in for a third.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Be aware the story opens with the murder.<\/p>\n

Her name was Devona Jefferson. She was going to be fifteen years old on April 23, and she had a daughter, three months and ten days old, whom she had named Crystal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems to me like that bit there tells you so very much. It’s horrible.<\/p>\n

The good part of this story, however, is the dialog between Spenser and Hawk, which I always love.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow come in books and movies the ghetto is always teeming with life: dogs barking, children crying, women shouting, radios playing, that sort of thing? And I come to a real ghetto, with two actual black people, and I can hear my hair growing?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThings are not always what they seem,\u201d Hawk said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, Susan also asks Spenser to move in with her. That works pretty much as expected.<\/p>\n

She cut the tops off the broccoli and threw the stalks away. Then she separated the flowerets and piled them up on her cutting board. I sat on a stool opposite her and watched. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou could peel those stalks and freeze them,\u201d I said. \u201cBe great for making a nice soup when you felt like it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Susan looked at me as if I had begun speaking in tongues. \u201cIn my entire life,\u201d Susan said, \u201cI have never, ever felt like making a nice soup.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weirdly, that’s one of the passages that has always stuck in my mind.<\/p>\n

Despite the horror of a girl and her baby being murdered, and the romantic difficulties of our intrepid heroes, I do like this book.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t think of an answer to that, so I kept quiet. I have rarely regretted keeping quiet. I promised myself to work on it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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