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Parker Book Format: Paperback Original Title: Valediction Number Of Pages: 288 pages First Published in: 1984 Latest Edition: June 2nd 1992 Series: Spenser #11 Language: English Generes: Mystery, Fiction, Mystery, Detective, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Hard Boiled, Audiobook, Mystery, Noir, Main Characters: Spenser, Susan Silverman, Paul Giacomin, Vince Haller, Rita Fiori Formats: audible mp3, ePUB(Android), kindle, and audiobook. Other Books From Spenser Series. The book can be easily translated to readable Russian, English, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Malaysian, French, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Arabic, Japanese and many others. Please note that the characters, names or techniques listed in Valediction is a work of fiction and is meant for entertainment purposes only, except for biography and other cases. we do not intend to hurt the sentiments of any community, individual, sect or religion. 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At a loose end when his girl leaves, Spenser figures he might as well investigate the alleged kidnapping of a dancer by a fringe religious sect. When a connection between the leader of the sect and a dubious construction company comes to light, he smells a rat. Read More. At a loose end when his girl leaves, Spenser figures he might as well investigate the alleged kidnapping of a dancer by a fringe religious sect. When a connection between the leader of the sect and a dubious construction company comes to light, he smells a rat. Read Less. All Copies ( 151 ) Softcover ( 95 ) Hardcover ( 48 ) Audiobook ( 1 ) Alternate Editions ( 1 ) Choose Edition ( 5 ) Book Details Seller Sort. 1984, Delacorte Press. Edition: 1984, Delacorte Press Hardcover, Good Details: ISBN: 0385293305 ISBN-13: 9780385293303 Pages: 228 Publisher: Delacorte Press Published: 1984 Language: English Alibris ID: 16622910943 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $3.99. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Former Library book. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. ► Contact This Seller. 1984, Delacorte Press. Edition: 1984, Delacorte Press Hardcover, Good Details: ISBN: 0440192471 ISBN-13: 9780440192473 Pages: 228 Publisher: Delacorte Press Published: 1985 Language: English Alibris ID: 16588258190 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $3.99. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. . All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. ► Contact This Seller. 1984, Delacorte Press. 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Seller's Description: Very good. Shows some signs of wear from usage. Is no longer bright/shinny. Edge wear from storage and shelving. ► Contact This Seller. 1984, Delacorte Press. Edition: 1984, Delacorte Press Paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0440192463 ISBN-13: 9780440192466 Pages: 228 Publisher: Delacorte Press Published: 06/1992 Language: English Alibris ID: 16680584194 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $3.99. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials. ► Contact This Seller. 1984, Delacorte Press. Edition: 1984, Delacorte Press Paperback, Very Good Details: ISBN: 0440192463 ISBN-13: 9780440192466 Pages: 228 Publisher: Delacorte Press Published: 1992 Language: English Alibris ID: 16680002735 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $3.99. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Very good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. 1984, Delacorte Press. Edition: 1984, Delacorte Press Paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0440192463 ISBN-13: 9780440192466 Pages: 228 Publisher: Delacorte Press Published: 1992 Language: English Alibris ID: 16661983947 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $3.99. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. Valediction by Robert B. Parker. The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more thanhalfway. Valediction by Robert B. Parker. Kemper says. There’s nothing sadder than a professional thug with a broken heart. The problems between Spenser and Susan that have been simmering in the background for several books finally boil over. Susan gets her psychiatric degree from Harvard and tells Spenser that she needs some time apart. She’s off to SanFrancisco for a new job, and Spenser is left devastated. With nothing else to do, Spenser takes a case looking for a missing woman who may or may not have been abducted by a Christian cult. But Spenser isn’t so sure that he wants to go on without Susan, and that’s a dangerous mindset for aguy in his line of work, especially when connections between the cult and organized crime pop up. Spenser makes himself go through the motions of work and life, even dating a woman and being shocked to realize that he can enjoy seeing someone else, but he’s too invested in his idealized version of pure love with Susan to be trulyhappy with anything less than her. He also realizes that the weight of that was probably too much for Susan to bear, and it’s something he’s going to have to get over it to ever get her back. This is a landmark in the series, and it sets up the next one A Catskill Eagle which is the pivotal book in the Spenser saga. If you know the story of how Robert B. Parker and his wife nearly split up during this time, and yourealize that the poor bastard was writing about his own marriage going sour, then you’d have to be made out of stone not to feel for the guy. Next up: Spenser and Hawk become fugitives and kill a whole lotta people to save Susan in A Catskill Eagle. I’m not sure she's worth it. Bill Kerwin says. Although not Spenser’s best, this is still very good, and—for all true Spenser fans—an essential episode in the development of Susan Silverman and Spenser’s relationship. The adventure itself is relatively simple—at least on the surface. When Spenser is hired to investigate the possible kidnapping of a ballet dancer by a religious cult, he soon finds that the girl has re-joined the church of her ownfree will. But Spenser can’t convince himself to let matters go. The second group of bad guys the church sent to scare him—after he put their musclebound deacons in the hospital—were true bad guys indeed: real hoods,arm-breakers, professional enforcers from the ranks of organized crime. Now what was The Reorganized Church of the Redemption doing, hooked up with bad guys like these? The more intriguing story here, though, is what is going on under the surface. Susan has moved to San Francisco, and tells Spenser she met another man she cares about. Spenser is deeply wounded—half-numb, bitter and filled with a wellof anger just below the surface. How that anger affects his way of dealing with this case is one of the intriguing features of the novel. This is an enjoyable entertainment, and an essential for all Spenser fans. TK421 says. Robert Parker was one helluva writer. His Spenser novels alone guarantee that he’ll be remembered within the noir genre for years to come. (I reserve the moment to not comment on the Sunny Randall or Jesse Stone novels in this review…not to mention his westerns.) But whatis really amazing about Parker is that he put parts of himself in Spenser. VALEDICTION is a perfect example of what I am talking about. You see, VALEDICTION is a very troubling book for me. It starts off with Spenser’s gal, Susan,graduating from Harvard with her Ph.D. in psychotherapy. Right off the bat Spenser is a fish out of water in these surroundings. Like Spenser, Parker too was a fish out of water. Parker was an academic before he could write fulltime.But unlike other academics who sell themselves out to the establishment, Parker maintained who he was: he wrote a dissertation on the fictional private-eye heroes created by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald. Thisconnection may not seem like much, but once you see the parallels between Parker and Spenser in VALEDICTION it seems as if Parker was more than channeling himself in this one, he was becoming Spenser… or perhaps he was making Spenserbecome more like himself. So Susan graduates. This event is the pivotal catalyst needed to not only move along the series, it also moves Parker’s life forward as well. You see Spenser and Susan call it quits. She moves to San Francisco. Spenser stays in Boston.This may not seem like much, but during this time Parker was struggling to save his own marriage. Had I not known this bit of information before reading this novel (thank you Kemper) I might have thought Parker was off his game in thisone because of the way Hawk seems cartoonish. But Parker wasn’t worried about Hawk. He was worried about his own life. Thus, he made Spenser worried about his life. The main plot is pretty thin: a woman needs to be saved from a religious cult who may or may not be involved in the heroin trade. Pretty basic. (Well, perhaps it is not as basic as I say it is…there are some pretty gnarly double andtriple-crosses.) But, as I said, this Spenser novel is different. The lighthearted, pithy dialogue is not as prevalent. Darkness consumes the pages. You can almost feel Parker’s heart breaking as Spenser works through being without Susan. Theatmosphere is bleak and aggressive, not a very welcoming environment when reading the books out of order as I have done. To be honest, I almost stopped reading it. Not because of the angst of Spenser, but because I knew that Parker wasactually going through this as he wrote this book. And when you add in that the scenes that included violence were much more elaborate, enlarged—almost as if Parker used Spenser to exorcise Parker’s own feelings of pain and anguishagainst said adversary—the feeling of sadness I had for Parker increased with the story. That is the mark of a great writer…forget caring about a character, I cared about the author. Put simply: VALEDICTION is one of the most human books I have ever read. With that said, I was still left wondering if Susan was worth all the pain in the end. And, to be honest, I really don’t know if she was. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION. Tags: Valediction by Robert B. 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