{"product_id":"book-asdv","title":"Pale Kings and Princes","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Ebullient entertainment.\u003ci\u003e”\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at “Miami North”—little Wheaton, Massachusetts—the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in a dishonorable world. When he says he will do something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and there is plenty of action . . . but it is the moral element that sets them above most detective fiction.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing . . . Unexpectedly literate—[Spenser is] in many respects the very exemplar of the species.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “They just don’t make private eyes tougher or funnier.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Parker has a recorder’s ear for dialogue, an agile wit . . . and, strangely enough, a soupçon of compassion hidden under that sardonic, flip exterior.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A deft storyteller, a master of pace.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Spenser probably had more to do with changing the private eye from a coffin-chaser to a full-bodied human being than any other detective hero.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[Spenser is] tough, intelligent, wisecracking, principled, and brave.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49338624704816,"sku":"BDasdv","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/203894-asdv-Square.jpg?v=1734000218","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-asdv","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}