Spenser · Book 2
God Save the Child
- Published
- 1 January 1974
- Pages
- 185
- ISBN-13
- 9780425030370
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1974 at 185 pages, God Save the Child is the 2nd entry in the Spenser series. In the reading order it comes right after The Godwulf Manuscript and just before Mortal Stakes.
Its place in Spenser
God Save the Child is book 2 in the Spenser series. It follows The Godwulf Manuscript. It is followed by Mortal Stakes. 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 9780425030370