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The Instant Enemy

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In this novel, children, barely adults and innocent, become entangled in serious crimes due to fate. Yet, are their parents not the true enemies? Sandy Sebastian might not have become psychologically unstable and involved in a murder if she had not grown up with indifferent parents, where a selfish father battles a coldly calculating mother. Under normal family circumstances, Davy Spanner would not have turned into a killer. Lew Archer recognizes all of this, just as his spiritual predecessor understood it better. Perhaps this is why his psychological explorations into the roots of crime have become increasingly brutal and uncompromising.

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The Instant Enemy, Ross Macdonald

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1974
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Title
The Instant Enemy
Language
English
Publisher
Bantam Books
Released
1974
Format
Paperback
Pages
192
ISBN10
0006136788
ISBN13
9780006136781
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First published
1968
Original title
The Instant Enemy
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4.25 out of 5
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In this novel, children, barely adults and innocent, become entangled in serious crimes due to fate. Yet, are their parents not the true enemies? Sandy Sebastian might not have become psychologically unstable and involved in a murder if she had not grown up with indifferent parents, where a selfish father battles a coldly calculating mother. Under normal family circumstances, Davy Spanner would not have turned into a killer. Lew Archer recognizes all of this, just as his spiritual predecessor understood it better. Perhaps this is why his psychological explorations into the roots of crime have become increasingly brutal and uncompromising.