DIGG THIS “You know what I like here? There’s a bunch of black guys waiting in cars to shoot it up with a bunch of white guys, and it’s not about race.” Leave it to Spenser, the irrepressibly sarcastic Private Eye from Robert Parker’s durable series of detective novels, to find the ironic humor in a potentially lethal situation. “Be about power and money, mostly,” agreed Spenser’s fearsome ally, Hawk, employing the economical street patois he employed while on the job (and abandoned, when it suited him, when he found himself in refined company). In this instance, as described near … Continue reading The One and the Same