Read and Download Ebook Spencerville... Spencerville Nelson DeMille PDF File: Spencerville... 1 Read and Download Ebook Spencerville... Spencerville Nelson DeMille Spencerville Nelson DeMille A government agent returns to his hometown and employs his hard-earned skills to rescue the woman he loves from her sadistic husband. 4 cassettes. Spencerville Details Date : Published October 18th 1994 by Random House Audio (first published 1984) ISBN : 9780679436645 Author : Nelson DeMille Format : Audio Cassette 656 pages Genre : Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense Download Spencerville ...pdf Read Online Spencerville ...pdf Download and Read Free Online Spencerville Nelson DeMille PDF File: Spencerville... 2 Read and Download Ebook Spencerville... From Reader Review Spencerville for online ebook Andrea Larson says Nelson Demille arrived on my favorite authors list after reading The Gatehouse, so I was anxious to read another selection and found Spencerville in the library. Keith Landry finds himself without a job after budget cuts in the federal government force him to review his life and decide what comes next. After twenty years of serving as a soldier and then intelligence for Uncle Sam, he decides to return to his hometown of Spencerville, OH. Though he won't admit it to himself at first, his main objective is to reclaim the love he walked away from when he joined the Army. Annie Prentis has spent the past twenty years in a loveless, abusive marriage to Spencerville's chief of police, Cliff Baxter. They've raised two children together, and now that the nest is empty, Annie has decided she has taken enough from her husband and is planning to leave him. When she sees her high school/college love of her life on the streets of Spencerville, there's no doubt the passion is still there between them, and the lines are drawn between Landry and the former high school bully, Baxter. Matthew says Two things: 1. Lately, I really wish that Goodreads had a half star system. This book is definitely a 3.5 for me and there is no way I could go to 4. So, I settled on 3. 2. Seems like I find myself in the midst of a lot of books with sexual torture/rape scenes. This is a pattern I hope to break! This book was okay. The premise was fairly far fetched, the actions of the characters not all that believable, and the outcomes generally coincidental. I enjoyed parts of it, but all in all it was a bit too scattered. Demille seems to be trying to combine his commentary on the end of the Cold War with a bizarre revenge story. Entertaining but just "meh and huh?" overall. With how long it is (21+ hours audio) it seemed to drag on with quite a bit of repetition. Revo says Hands down, the silliest DeMille book. The cold war has ended, the MC (ex-CIA) returnes home to a lost love in the heartland and is almost immediately outwitted by a stereotypical, wife-beatin', cheatin', lyin' and theivin' hick cop. No, really...I'm serious. It's in the book, honest. Unfortunately, I read this book immediately after "Word of Honor" and was nearly crippled by story intelligence whiplash. I'm still not sure what the moral of the story was behind this one. Maybe it didn't have one. DeMille is one of my fave author ever, but even he fires blanks on occasion. The hammer fell on an empty PDF File: Spencerville... 3 Read and Download Ebook Spencerville... chamber in this one. Razvan Banciu says not one of his best. more romance than fiction, with quite a violent finish. I find hard to believe that a fine, bright and civilised young woman would marry such a brute. Dona Krueger says One of my favorite authors. How this same DeMille could write Cathedral is a critics question. I felt I was reading a very bad romance with a tiny bit of elementary evil thrown in. RJ says Some artists can work in different styles without diminishing quality. Michelangelo's work with oils and sculpture come to mind. When it comes to action mysteries with humor, Nelson DeMille's John Corey series is at the top of my list. I gave all but Wild Fire a 5 star rating. However, Spencerville is not an action mystery with humor. It's a slow romance with an action climax. It's Michelangelo standing under a bridge holding two cans of spray paint. Perry Mowbray says Spencerville was not one of Nelson DeMille's best, we didn't think... It just never got into the believable realm, which was funny, as in an abstract way the plot made lots of sense, but it just didn't ever get filled out so that it was believable. In the end, though not un-enjoyable (we didn't hate it), it just seemed ho-hum... but we continue to love his sense of humour! Corey says I had read several of the reviews of Spencerville, and apparently it had many mixed reviews, in other words, some loved it, some really hated it. In my own opinion, was it right up there with some of DeMille's best, like The Charm School, Gold Coast, General's Daughter or the John Corey series, no, but it was still widely entertaining. Spencerville introduces us to Keith Landry, who has been forced into early retirement from the Military. Landry has returned to his hometown of Spencerville, Ohio, where he hopes to find peace and rebuild his life. There have been many changes in Spencerville since Landry left to join the Military. But two things still remain, Annie Prentis, his ex-flame, the love of his life, and Cliff Baxter, the famous High School bully, who PDF File: Spencerville... 4 Read and Download Ebook Spencerville... is now the corrupt Police Chief of Spencerville, and the possessive, abusive husband of Annie. All 3 of them are about to cross paths again, Annie, who has become unhappy in her marriage to a husband who sleeps around and has the law on his side, and Keith, who is still deeply in love with Annie, and wasn't happy with the way they left things, and Annie is still secretly in love with him, and Cliff Baxter, who, since hearing of Keith's return to town, has been watching his every move, also his wife's. Would I put Spencerville in my top favorites, no probably not, but like I said, still a good book, and I loved the Ohio/country setting, and the character developments! I'll admit the premise was pretty far-fetched, and there's some graphic sex scenes and violence, some a little unnecessary. Still a fun, entertaining tale by one of my favorite writers! Tamora Pierce says Is it just me, or does DeMille really have a problem with women? I read several of his books when he first began publishing and stopped because I didn't like the way he handled his female characters. Then I thought I'd try this one because I was on a trip and desperate for a page-turner, it wasn't one of his military titles, and it took place in small town America. I figured it might be okay. Instead the entire ending revolves around the abuse--pages and pages of it--of the errant wife, far more than is necessary to make the point and set up the ending. So now I know he hasn't changed, and I have to ask--is it me, or does the author have some major issues? Benjamin Thomas says This novel suffers from mis-categorization. If you begin reading it expecting a thriller in the same vein as Plum Island, Cathedral, or Wild Fire, you will be disappointed, as many of the other reviews here admit. However, if you are looking for a more of a straight fiction, character-driven novel, with lots of backstory, and some bits of action thrown in, then you've come to the right place. DeMille is an excellent writer and has a way of drawing you in no matter what he is writing. I think even his grocery list must be an interesting read. I did mark him down one star on this book though because I felt he drew out some of the events a little too much here and there. For example, the sub plot about the Washington DC recruiting efforts to get the main character back into his old job seemed drawn out and unnecessary. When the action does come at the end it also seems to take way too long and it sort of loses its impact as a result. But having said that, I very much enjoyed the read and would recommend it, as long as you're expecting more of a straight fiction book as opposed to the thrillers we are used to from DeMille. Dennis D. says I've enjoyed most of Nelson DeMille's books, but this one was an exception. Spencerville is a standalone story unrelated to some of the author's recurring characters. Keith Landry is an ex-CIA agent who returns home to the rural Ohio town that gives the books its title. Landry still has the hots for his high-school sweetheart, but she’s now married to the abusive and misogynistic small-town sheriff. Can you see where this is headed? Me, too. PDF File: Spencerville... 5 Read and Download Ebook Spencerville... The central character is well-drawn, but there’s little else to recommend about ‘Spencerville’. Overall, I felt DeMille phoned this one in. Kip says Another great page-turner from DeMille.