PS - To the NSA, CIA, FBI, and any other Gov't Agency. This is HUMOR. Please do not target me as a terrorist. Please call off the drones. (unless they are delivering my Amazon.com shipment.
The books were great. The TV show? No. Spenser was NOT supposed to be prettier than his girlfriend. Special thing about the books to me was the fact that they were based in my home town. There was one line from one of the novels that has stuck with me all these years. He was talking to a small town cop about the leader of the pack of local juvenile delinquents. Cop said: "He's small-town high school tough. But you take him to East Boston and a cheerleader could kick his ass." Having lived in East Boston for the first 19 yrs of my life, I can attest that he spoke the truth
Yeah. If you were an outsider. During the forced busing riots of the '70's Eastie was the only section of the city that they didn't put kids on buses or bus kids into.