--- M Blumenthal <
blumenidiot@21stcentury.net> wrote:
> GOD SAVE. is the second, GODWULF is the
first,
> JUDAS is the fifth, MORTAL
> is the third and PROMISED is the fourth. It
seems
> the books are listed
> pretty randomly..
Ugh. Having that book on my bedside table would keep me up
nights.
> I've read only the first twenty books in
the
> series. I don't think Hawk's
> background or life is ever mentioned at any
length..
There are only the merest hints. Of course, he was a boxer at
the same time as Spenser, and one of the books--I can't
recall which--tells the story of their meeting in a fight
that Spenser won by a decision but which Hawk thinks was
given to Spenser by the (white) officials. Other than that,
you're right.
> I think Robert Crais
> realized the necessity of doing this in LA
REQUIEM
> which was mainly about
> his Hawklike character, Joe Pike. Because
Parker
> identifies so with Spenser
> I don't think will ever do this because it
would
> acknowledge the character
> Spenser is not particularly interesting.
I think you've hit it on the head, Mark. One of the things I
liked about POTSHOT, his most recent, is the gathering of
seven of these characters from earlier books--Spenser, Hawk,
Vinnie Morris, Bernard Fortunato, etc.--and the dialogue that
results. Parker has retained, I think, the ability to write
good dialogue with these kinds of characters--just not
Spenser (who serves as little more than a straight man half
the time in POTSHOT).
I only buy Parker used now, unless I'm writing something
about him, as I was with POTSHOT. But I'd pick up a Parker
book about Hawk in a second.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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