Private detective Spenser has travelled to London in search of the bombers who attacked his client's family. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn't choosy.

But there are nine killers to one Spenser - long odds. Hawk helps balance the equation. The rest depends on a wild plan. Spenser will get one of the terrorists to play Judas Goat - to lead him to the others. Trouble is, he hasn't counted on her being blond, beautiful and very dangerous.

'Nobody does it better' Publishers Weekly

'Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe or Lewis Archer . . . Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself' Boston Globe

'Spenser is a constant revelation for even long-time Parker fans' Milwaukee Sentinel

'One of the great series in the history of the detective story' New York Times Book Review

'Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenaline' Boston Observer

'Robert Parker is still top gun in the tough-guy school of fiction' Playboy

'Spenser gives the tribe of hard-boiled wonders a new vitality and complexity' Chicago Sun-Times

'The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today... the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition' Cincinnati Post

'Reading a Spenser novel is like a family reunion - it makes one feel good' Library Journal