Books
May, 1989
Robert B. Parker's latest novel, Playmates (Putnam), is about a basketball point-shaving scandal at a Boston college, and, as Spenser detective stories go, this one is light on violence. But what eloquent violence! Parker describes the frozen moment at the end of a gun fight: "In the slow motion of crisis time, it had unreeled in ponderous elegance, and the crystalline immobility that followed was intensified by the lingering smell of gunfire, like an olfactory echo of the big bang."No...
