

For the majority of this novel he’s not only out of the Boston area, but he’s out of the United States. When he travels it’s normally for a short time and he returns home relatively quickly. In a great sequence Spenser and Hawk take on Zachary where they all are worse off than when the confrontation began. Paul is now being guarded by a huge bodybuilder named Zachary. They there learn of a plot to assassinate a gold medal winner and Spenser and Hawk must stop them. They follow Paul and crew to Montreal where the Olympics are going on. As we all knew he would he decides to stay on till the end.

With his “contract” completed Spenser must determine if he should go home or “finish the job”.

Tired of dealing with Spenser (as he proves very difficult to kill) Paul leaves the last two members responsible for the bombing shot dead in Spenser and Hawk’s hotel room. The group turns out to be a white-supremacist group which leads to some snappy dialogue between Spenser & Hawk. Spenser finds a member of the group known as “Katherine” and tracks her to Copenhagen, he meets the leader of the group, Paul. Spenser does what he does and stirs the pot to the point where he needs to call in backup in the form of Hawk. It was originally published in 1978.Ī recluse millionaire in a wheelchair (think Mason Verger from Hannibal without the facial deformity), Hugh Dixon, hires Spenser to find the members of a terrorist group (Liberty) that killed his family. The Judas Goat is the fifth Spenser novel written by Robert B.
