Mortal Stakes
Written by Robert B. Parker
Narrated by Michael Prichard
3.5/5
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Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with Linda's past...or to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer and an enforcer toting an M-16.
America's favorite pastime has suddenly become a very dangerous sport, and one wrong move means strike three, with Spenser out for good!
From the Cassette edition.
Robert B. Parker
Robert B Parker was the best-selling author of over 60 books, including Small Vices, Sudden Mischief, Hush Money, Hugger Mugger, Potshot, Widows Walk, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise, Death in Paradise, Family Honor, Perish Twice, Shrink Rap, Stone Cold, Melancholy Baby, Back Story, Double Play, Bad Business, Cold Service, Sea Change, School Days and Blue Screen. He died in 2010 at the age of 77.
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Reviews for Mortal Stakes
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This mystery revolves around baseball. It wasn’t as interesting to me as others in the series.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not vintage Parker. He was still trying to find his Spenser voice... Things get better in later volumes, specially in terms of the dynamics between Spenser and Susan , which here are only in an embryonic state.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Spenser is hired by the Boston Red Sox to find out if a player is throwing games. His investigation leads him to discoveries about the player and his wife which prompt him to fight for them, rather than simply turn his findings over to his client. For the first three quarters, this is just regular Spenser fare (good, but not super special), but in the last fourth, Spenser must decide what to do when his own moral code sends him conflicting messages and the resulting character development is stellar. One ten-page section of this book makes it my second all-time favorite Spenser (behind [Early Autumn], which is just aces from start to finish).
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I don’t know why it took so long to read such a small book, but it did. This is still early days in this series for me and while it is definitely dated, that doesn’t interfere with the storytelling. I do think that Spenser was a “foodie” before the term even was born . That’s the distracting part for me—he makes me so damned hungry when he’s cooking/eating!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This title was in a tray of books a friend gave me. I've not read the first two Spenser novels. At first I liked the style, but after a while it wore on me. Spenser constantly trying to be witty (and rarely succeeding for me) got old.I think that there were two characters named Marty in this book, which got a bit confusing. Marty Rabb (the Red Sox Pitcher) and Marty Quirk (with the police). Most of the time, Marty referred to Rabb, but a few times police came up to Spenser and said "Marty" wanted to see him--and I'm wondering how the police know the Red Sox pitcher--it took me two times to figure out there were two characters with the same first name. (Three if you count the son but since he's only a minor character he didn't end up confusing me.) Honestly, with all the names out there, pick one that's different from one of your main supporting characters.WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD (READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION):I'm not that familiar with Boston. I do know of the Red Sox and that they play (or played) at Fenway Park which is (was) an iconic baseball park. So the many roads and restaurants and bars that the author puts in mean little to me. A Red Sox big wig is referred to Spenser because he thinks his star pitcher (Rabb) may be either gambling or throwing games. To his credit, he wants hard proof before he takes it up the ladder and potentially ruins a career (Remember, this is set around the time of Pete Rose--and I think he's still banned from the Hall of Fame--sadly while people who have done worse things are eligible--but I digress). Spenser's radar is piqued by Rabb's wife, whose story doesn't quite ring true. Some checking by Spenser reveals her real name and her former profession. There's embarrassing proof of that profession that's been obtained by someone who is threatening to go public with it if Rabb doesn't fix some games. Behind that, the blackmailer owes money to the bookies. What I liked (that I haven't already mentioned):Marty Rabb loves his wife even though he knew of her past. He tried to protect her.BaseballWhat I didn't like (that I haven't already mentioned): Spenser has two women he's seeing though neither is a serious relationship from what I read in this book. (I wasn't able to tell if the two women knew that he saw the other one.)Spenser is apparently sleeping with at least one of these two women, despite the relationship not being what I would consider serious. Spenser kills two people and almost kills a third.