![]() ![]() ![]() Spenser's longtime girlfriend Susan thinks about that, too, while monitoring how her experiment in domesticating the p.i. With Hawk as guide, then, Spenser enters the forbidding world of gangs, marveling at their colorful slang and ritualized ways, meditating-with input from a saintly youth worker-on their hopeless lives.which gets him to thinking a lot about Hawk and the cruel sacrifices the black Ãœbermensch made to escape the ghetto. ![]() 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-"nothing"-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-most likely a Hobart-gunned down a 15-year-old and her infant daughter at the project. Spenser and Hawk take on a black street-gang while, on the domestic front, Susan persuades Spenser to move in: more hard-boiled mystery with a runny yolk from the ever-entertaining Parker. ![]()
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