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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4937880" data-attributes="member: 54707"><p>The very best Spenser I've read so far is the one I'm reading now. <em>Cold Service.</em> I'm not far in yet but it's awful good.</p><p></p><p>In it Hawk takes three rounds to the back from some Ukrainians (apparently they were at least the shooters) looking to make over the underworld racket in town. But so far it looks like orders are coming from elsewhere. Maybe even back in Eastern Europe.</p><p></p><p>Anywho Hawk is nearly killed and Spense has to help nurse him back to health then help Hawk track down those responsible and see if they can break up the operation that tried to put Hawk down. So far I'm suspicious of the people operating around Hawk, some of whom are apparently old buddies. He was apparently body-guarding a Ukrainian who was looking for protection but if you ask me it don't add the way the whole thing was played. It smells like a set piece to me. They've already chopped off the wedding finger and ring of one guy's mother so they could get him behind bars to shank him and put him down. You know what they say about old buddies in the racket. A friend when you're in need already knows too much about ya. Or put another way, <em>"Under the weather means you're soon to be weathering under..."</em> That's especially true when you're talking Eastern European mobs. They don't rate much of a half-life for the sick and injured.</p><p></p><p>I think they hit Hawk not as peripheral and collateral damage but because they figured he could score an eventual make on what was really going down and who was involved. In any case something smells pretty rank in this book. I guess it'll start to lay out as I get deeper in. Right now though it seems to me more is moving sideways than up and down.</p><p></p><p>Anyways, don't know what you fished out, but enjoy what you turn up.</p><p>I think you probably will.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 4937880, member: 54707"] The very best Spenser I've read so far is the one I'm reading now. [I]Cold Service.[/I] I'm not far in yet but it's awful good. In it Hawk takes three rounds to the back from some Ukrainians (apparently they were at least the shooters) looking to make over the underworld racket in town. But so far it looks like orders are coming from elsewhere. Maybe even back in Eastern Europe. Anywho Hawk is nearly killed and Spense has to help nurse him back to health then help Hawk track down those responsible and see if they can break up the operation that tried to put Hawk down. So far I'm suspicious of the people operating around Hawk, some of whom are apparently old buddies. He was apparently body-guarding a Ukrainian who was looking for protection but if you ask me it don't add the way the whole thing was played. It smells like a set piece to me. They've already chopped off the wedding finger and ring of one guy's mother so they could get him behind bars to shank him and put him down. You know what they say about old buddies in the racket. A friend when you're in need already knows too much about ya. Or put another way, [I]"Under the weather means you're soon to be weathering under..."[/I] That's especially true when you're talking Eastern European mobs. They don't rate much of a half-life for the sick and injured. I think they hit Hawk not as peripheral and collateral damage but because they figured he could score an eventual make on what was really going down and who was involved. In any case something smells pretty rank in this book. I guess it'll start to lay out as I get deeper in. Right now though it seems to me more is moving sideways than up and down. Anyways, don't know what you fished out, but enjoy what you turn up. I think you probably will. [/QUOTE]
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