- Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; Reprint edition (31 Dec 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0440109930
- ISBN-13: 978-0440109938
- Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 1.5 x 17.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 154,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Boston private eye Spenser's search for a missing high-school girl takes him to Boston's Combat Zone, to high-class, specialty brothels, and back to the straight world whose righteous facade overlap pervasive corruption.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
A moral dilemma for Spenser
14 Aug 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
There is no murder in this entry in the long running Spenser series. The missing person is found before the book is half over. What gives the book it's central focus is Spenser's moral problem-what do you do with a teenage hooker who doesn't want to leave her current 'job'? He passes up the chance to bust a big-time pimp preferring to concentrate on a prostitution ring with its roots in the Boston school system. He rescues the girl from a kinky brothel where insubordinate hookers are sent as punishment only to have her break away and rejoin the the man who recruited her. Along with Hawk, Spenser engages in one of the most astounding fistfights of his career at the headquarters of the ring and manages to rescue the girl again. At the end, Spenser and Susan are forced to face the problem of what to do with the girl. Their options shake Susan to her core and make for an interesting argument on what is good for the girl vs what is legal. This stands head and shoulders above the usual Spenser parade of wisecracks. Along with "Mortal Stakes", this is one of Parker's best.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Now this is more like it!
1 July 2002
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I recently finished Spenser's latest, WIDOW'S WALK, and really didn't like it one bit. Thank goodness for CEREMONY, which reminded me of everything I love about the series. The story was complex and meaningful -- student April Kyle has a terrible homelife and turns to hooking. What is worse, what's more damaging to her still evolving psyche? Susan is serious and struggling with real issues. Hawk is a loyal, supportive presence. No extraneous subplots, no strained wise cracking. Just good storytelling. Highly recommended.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Intriguing
3 Dec 1998
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have read many of Mr. Parkers books on Spenser and find them very hard to put down. I enjoyed the television series, also and enjoy the relationship between Hawk, Spenser and Susan. I would like to get a list of his older books, which I don't have.
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