![]() ![]() And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than the other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.” Detective Spenser's backstory and character emerge in pieces over the course of the many novels Parker wrote about him: he grew up in Laramie, Wyoming, and now works as a private eye in Boston. The book's title comes from the Herman Melville quote, “And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. Although A Catskill Eagle was never turned into a TV movie, several of Parker's works involving Detective Spenser have been. ![]() The story follows Detective Spenser as he tries to save the woman he loves from what seems to be a case of Stockholm syndrome. Parker’s twelfth crime novel featuring Detective Spenser, A Catskill Eagle (1985), is characterized by tight, spare prose and a quick-moving, action-filled plot. ![]()
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