Double Deuce

When a teenage girl and her baby are gunned down by feuding street gangs, tenants of a Boston housing project hire Hawk and Spenser to protect them and bring the killers to justice. 150,000 first printing. $130,000 ad/promo. Mystery Guild Main. Doubleday & Lit Guild Alt. more

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Posted: Jun-12-2008

a study in contrasts

When a teenage girl and her baby are killed in a drive-by shooting at the Double Deuce housing project, a group of the residents hire Hawk to solve their murders and to drive the gang out of the project. Hawk, naturally, asks Spenser to join him.The story is a study in contrasts. While Hawk and...

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Posted: Dec-15-2007

Spenser and Hawk Tackle Gang Violence

DOUBLE DEUCE is an okay Spenser novel. In this book, Spenser and Hawk deal with a gang killing of a fourteen year old girl and her baby daughter. As they do so, they are forced to deal with the stark day-to-day realities of the black underclass in Boston, and how many of its children are...

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Posted: Jul-17-2007

When 2 worlds collide, no one is the winner

When 14-year-old Devona Jefferson and her three-month-old baby Crystal are shot down near the projects at 22 Hobart St (thus called Double Deuce), a committee of the residents comprised of women, old men and the reverend Orestes Tillis contact Hawk and ask him to help weed out the gangs who have...

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Posted: Jun-06-2007

Double Poo

I just read this book 2 days ago,so I still remember it clearly. This must be a kids book like Nancy Drew or something to merit anything over 2 stars. Firstly, the whole story is entirely cliche. We have two tough guy detectives who dont talk much cause they dont need to "we dont think, it...

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Posted: Apr-24-2007

Casting Pearls Before Swine to find a Pearl in the Oyster. Reverse Right. Leave Left.

As a calculated contrast to life in the gang-infested DOUBLE DEUCE housing complex, scenes of daily doings in Susan's home provided prime parlay between Spenser and his lady, resulting in poignant posing in the DD bailiwick broken up by hearty humor in the SS Titanic. What a cartoon-funny...

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Posted: Jan-23-2006

Spenser and Hawk "clean" a section of the ghetto of gangs

Spenser and Hawk are both noble, honorable men of the highest caliber. They are the best of friends, willing to join the other in the deadliest of fights, all the other has to do is ask. In this story, some people in a ghetto neighborhood are desperate to rid their neighborhood of the scourge of...

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Posted: Jan-13-2006

Got me hooked on Spenser

This was the first Spenser book I read. I spotted the book on a 4 books for a dollar table at a used book sale. I was a fan of the "Spenser For Hire" TV show and thought it would make a fun quick read. I was right about it being a fun, quick read. Something else happened though that I did not...

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Posted: Sep-26-2004

Spenser is back

Much better than the last four entries in the Spenser series. Exciting with a more believable story line, Parker delivers.

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Posted: Mar-15-2003

I honestly don't know what the other reviewers want

Parker likes to change up the Spenser series. He gets stuck in a formula just chugging along in Boston, and likes to mix it up every few novels. He writes a basic Spenser novel, and they complain hes just going through the motions. If he writes something different they complain he should stick...

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Posted: Jan-31-2003

Perceptive look at ghetto gangs

Parker has succeeded in writing crime thrillers that are entertaining and fast reads and yet give you issues to think about. "Double Deuce" is no exception, and this time, the issues are racial relations and gang psychology. This novel has a more intense than usual opening for Spenser, because...

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