New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers - Book 2 in the series -
Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking...except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy's life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too.
"A brillant, and cynical, comic tragedy or tragic comedy of manners. Long may Parker wave." -- Los Angeles Times
| ISBN: | 9780440128991 |
| Publication date: | 1st May 1987 |
| Author: | Robert B Parker |
| Publisher: | Dell an imprint of Random House Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 205 pages |
| Series: | Spenser |
| Genres: |
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives Crime and Mystery Thriller and Suspense |