{"id":7609,"date":"2004-03-14T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/14\/7609\/"},"modified":"2018-08-10T10:13:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T15:13:51","slug":"7609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/14\/7609\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: <i>Bad Business<\/i> by Robert B. Parker (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know, I hold Robert B. Parker in the in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/26\/meeting-robert-b-parker\/\" target=\"new\">the highest esteem<\/a>.  Of course I buy his books when they come out, whether they&#8217;re Sunny Randall or Jesse Stone, or especially when they&#8217;re Spenser novels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0425199576\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0425199576&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=f9451393b33b758bdbcc376d68baecb3\" target=\"new\">This novel<\/a> represents the best of the Spenser novels.  For those of you who are not in the know, the Spenser character spawned the 1980s series <i>Spenser: For Hire<\/i> which starred Robert Urich.  So they&#8217;re crime fiction.  This piece finds Spenser working for a wealthy woman who wants to catch her husband <i>in flagrante delecto<\/i> for a divorce.   The husband turns up dead in his office at a large energy-trading corporation while Spenser&#8217;s outside tailing, which Spenser cannot abide.  Spenser finds himself with an onion to peel; each layer of sex, scandal, and big business leads to another.  Red herrings abound.  A tightly-crafted plot, and Spenser muddles through with some help from his friends.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Parker derives some from the Enron scandal and even some from his own previous work, but it&#8217;s a damn good read and a damn good thirtieth birthday present to the Spenser character and his fans.  &#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know, I hold Robert B. Parker in the in the highest esteem. Of course I buy his books when they come out, whether they&#8217;re Sunny Randall or Jesse Stone, or especially when they&#8217;re Spenser novels. This novel represents the best of the Spenser novels. For those of you who are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22706,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions\/22706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}