Pale kings and princes - Robert B. Parker

The bestselling author of Pastime and Double Deuce presents a taut thriller .

Caught in a snowstorm of drugs, passion, and hate, Spenser investigates a cocaine-related murder.

Part of Dell's ongoing Robert B.

Ebullient entertainment.

-- Time 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.

Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth .

or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband? Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.

Praise for Robert B.

Parker's Spenser novels 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.

-- Newsweek Crackling dialogue, plenty of action and expert writing .

Unexpectedly literate-- Spenser is] in many respects the very exemplar of the species.

-- The New York Times They just don't make private eyes tougher or funnier.

-- People Parker has a recorder's ear for dialogue, an agile wit .

and, strangely enough, a soup on of compassion hidden under that sardonic, flip exterior.

-- Los Angeles Times A deft storyteller, a master of pace.

-- The Philadelphia Inquirer 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.

-- The Chicago Sun-Times Spenser is] tough, intelligent, wisecracking, principled, and brave.

-- The New Yorker.