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<p>Hawk wants Spenser to wage war on a street gang. Susan wants Spenser to move in with her. Either way, Spenser's out of his element. So why not risk both?</p><h3>Kirkus Reviews</h3><p>Spenser and Hawk take on a black street-gang while, on the domestic front, Susan persuades Spenser to move in&#58; more hard- boiled mystery with a runny yolk from the ever-entertaining Parker. After some good-natured haggling, Spenser's dark-side alter- ego Hawk agrees to pay the Boston shamus a third of what he's getting&#151;"nothing"&#151;to free a decayed ghetto housing project from the "Hobarts," the violent drug-dealing youth gang that controls it utterly; and, at the same time, to bring to justice whoever&#151;most likely a Hobart&#151;gunned down a 15-year-old and her infant daughter at the project. With Hawk as guide, then, Spenser enters the forbidding world of gangs, marveling at their colorful slang and ritualized ways, meditating&#151;with input from a saintly youth worker&#151;on their hopeless lives...which gets him to thinking a lot about Hawk and the cruel sacrifices the black bermensch made to escape the ghetto. Spenser's longtime girlfriend Susan thinks about that, too, while mo

Who reads Double Deuce (Spenser, #19)?

Author

Robert B. Parker; David Dukes

Publisher

G.P. Putnam's Sons

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780399137211

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Literary Fiction, Children'S

Rating

3.9 / 5 (3,815 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14