Spenser · Book 37
Chasing the Bear
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 169
- ISBN-13
- 9780399247767
- Type
- companion
About this book
Chasing the Bear is a YA prequel to the Spenser series, tracking the character's teenage years rather than continuing the main numbered sequence. Written by Robert B. Parker and published in 2009, it's placed here between Rough Weather and The Professional in this catalogue's reading order.
Its place in Spenser
Chasing the Bear is book 37 in the Spenser series. It follows Rough Weather. It is followed by The Professional. See the full Spenser reading order.
Spenser is a Boston private investigator -- ex-boxer, Korean War veteran, gourmet cook, wisecracking romantic -- whose one-name toughness (never explained beyond a nod to the Elizabethan poet) masks a code of honor as rigid as any knight's. Robert B. Parker launched the series in 1973 with The Godwulf Manuscript and spent nearly four decades refining a template that became the genre standard: terse, dialogue-driven prose, a hero who talks his way through trouble as often as he fights his way out, and a real…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781101032831
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399247767
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781101032299