) entirely from cover to cover, this says alot.To answer some of the questions...
The music score in all of the Jesse Stone movies is done by American composer, Jeff Beal. He also did the music in another Robert B. Parker novel turned movie, Appaloosa starring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. Awesome movie.
I doubt if RBP wrote another Jesse Stone novel after Split Image. I wish he did, but chances are, he didn't. He did write one more Spenser novel, Painted Ladies which is due out in early October.
In the books, Jesse Stone does carry a Smith & Wesson short barreled .38. That's all Parker describes it as. He doesn't say what model exactly, but I'm thinking that he does mention "Chief's Special" once or twice.
In the movies, Tom Selleck carries a Smith & Wesson Gunsite edition 1911 in a Galco Yaqui slide holster as well as a Galco "MFP" mag/flashlight combo pouch, holding a spare mag and a Surefire 6P flashlight. I carry the same pouch and I gotta say, it's the best Galco product I have ever owned.
Yeah...I've read every single RBP novel at least once. Most of them several times. I own the entire Jesse Stone library. Having never read a book (without pictures
When I watched Stone Cold for the very first time, I was so taken by it, that when I found out it was based on a book, I went to my local library and read it. I've been hooked on Mr. Parker's stuff ever since.
While the Jesse Stone novels are excellent, like the Spenser novels, you guys really owe it to yourselves to check out some more of RBP's stuff like the Sunny Randall series. He also wrote All Our Yesterdays. It's about three generations of crooked Irish cops in Boston.
He also wrote Double Play which is a story about a WWII Marine veteran who gets shot up at Guadalcanal and returns home. While he was in the hospital, his wife left him so he takes a job as a bodyguard for Jackie Robinson. Incredible book!
For more info about my beloved RBP, go to www.robertbparker.net
To answer some of the questions...
The music score in all of the Jesse Stone movies is done by American composer, Jeff Beal. He also did the music in another Robert B. Parker novel turned movie, Appaloosa starring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen. Awesome movie.
I doubt if RBP wrote another Jesse Stone novel after Split Image. I wish he did, but chances are, he didn't. He did write one more Spenser novel, Painted Ladies which is due out in early October.
In the books, Jesse Stone does carry a Smith & Wesson short barreled .38. That's all Parker describes it as. He doesn't say what model exactly, but I'm thinking that he does mention "Chief's Special" once or twice.
In the movies, Tom Selleck carries a Smith & Wesson Gunsite edition 1911 in a Galco Yaqui slide holster as well as a Galco "MFP" mag/flashlight combo pouch, holding a spare mag and a Surefire 6P flashlight. I carry the same pouch and I gotta say, it's the best Galco product I have ever owned.
Yeah...I've read every single RBP novel at least once. Most of them several times. I own the entire Jesse Stone library. Having never read a book (without pictures
When I watched Stone Cold for the very first time, I was so taken by it, that when I found out it was based on a book, I went to my local library and read it. I've been hooked on Mr. Parker's stuff ever since.
While the Jesse Stone novels are excellent, like the Spenser novels, you guys really owe it to yourselves to check out some more of RBP's stuff like the Sunny Randall series. He also wrote All Our Yesterdays. It's about three generations of crooked Irish cops in Boston.
He also wrote Double Play which is a story about a WWII Marine veteran who gets shot up at Guadalcanal and returns home. While he was in the hospital, his wife left him so he takes a job as a bodyguard for Jackie Robinson. Incredible book!
For more info about my beloved RBP, go to www.robertbparker.net
) in my entire life until I picked up one of Parker's. To me, they are a simple read. Kinda like The Cat In The Hat or something. A good 70% of his writing is a conversation between two or more people. His dialogue is outstanding and he can describe a person in a single sentence.
I like the gun choices in her new book (out this month) "The Crocodile's Last Embrace." I gave her a spare copy of John Taylor's, "African Rifles and Cartridges", which she seems to have found very useful. However, I suggested that Jade carry a .275 Rigby, and Mrs. Arruda insisted on a Winchester, to emphasize that Jade is American. I wanted enough power to be reasonably useful, without the limitations of the .405. And the ammo had to be easily available in Nairobi in the 1920's. We settled on a M-95 in .303 British.
Living in Massachusetts, it's probably a little tougher to be a gun guy than in other parts of the world, but he must have been, because he sure knew his weapons.
Some of the types of weapons that appeared in his books on a regular basis are as follows. And this is just off the top of my head; guns I remember seeing in print over the last 5 years of reading basically nothing but RBP novels.
A short barreled Smith & Wesson .38. This revolver shows up in Mr. Parker's writings more than any other. It is the weapon of choice favorored by ALL THREE of his most famous characters; Spenser, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall. All three of them tote the infamous short barreled .38. While RBP never really gives us a model of the snubbie, I do recall reading a refference to a "Chief's Special" a time or two.
Browning Hi-Power. Occasionally Spenser (never call him "Spence") will tote one of these in lieu of his .38 Special. Jesse Stone also carried one and shot Macklin with it in Trouble In Paradise.
Glock 9mm. Again, we don't know if it's a model 17 or 19 or even the model 34 or 18. If it was the model 18, I'm sure he would say something about it being full auto. I'm guessing it's usually a model 19 when he mentions it. It's usually a bad guy who carries the Glock 9mm. Gus Sheridan (All Our Yesterdays) was a cop...albeit a cop on the take, but he favors one. Big time bad guy Wilson "Crow" Cromartie (Trouble In Paradise/Stranger In Paradise) along with Terry Nee (Family Honor) and a few other nameless bad guys carried Glock 9mms as well.
Army issue .45. Again, spenser has been known to carry one of these every now and then, but he claims they are too heavy. Spike (Sunny Randall's buddy and confidant) likes ol' slabsides and so does Joseph Burke (Double Play).
.44 Magnum. Spenser's right hand man Hawk lugs one of these around (a six incher) in damn near every one of the novels he appears in. He also favors a short, double barreled scattergun for when things really heat up.
10 gauge double barreled sawed off shotgun. Sunny Randall uses one of these to kill an intruder and protect her and Milicent Patton from the other one until the cops show up in Family Honor. She keeps it in the closet by the front door. Her dad, Phil Randall, retired Boston PD, took it off a bad guy back in the day and gave it to her.
8 gauge shotgun. Everett Hitch (Appaloosa/Resolution/Brimstone/Blue-eyed Devil) carries this massive scattergun that he got when he rode for Wells Fargo with him everywhere. It's almost like a seperate character what with all the recognition it gets in the books. RBP also mentions Colts and Winchesters aplenty, in use by both friend and foe.
.40 caliber Smith & Wesson pistol. Jesse Stone is on the range shooting one of these in Stranger In Paradise at the Paradise gun club. I'm guessing it's a model 4006, but RBP never says. Wilson "Crow" Cromartie approaches him and is invited by Jesse to shoot with him if he wants to. Crow gives Jesse some spill about how it's illegal to possess a gun without a permit and he asks if he can borrow one from Jesse. Jesse remarks "you would have a gun with you in the shower" and tells him he has his permission to shoot with him. They shoot together, neither one of them completely emptying their weapons, not trusting each other.
Mr. Parker also writes about a host of other various weaponry in all of his novels. So yeah, I'd say he definitely knew his ordinance.
