

The group turns out to be an anti-communist/white-supremacist group trying to keep control of African countries away from the native Africans and in the hands of white countries and leaders. The rescue leads to the deaths of three more members of the group, but Katherine (also called Kathie) and the leader of the group, Paul, escape.

Spenser allows himself to be captured by Katherine's allies just to be rescued by Hawk before they can kill him. "Katherine," the name she is operating under, flees to Copenhagen with Hawk and Spenser in pursuit. Spenser tracks one of the members of the terrorist group, Liberty, and uses her as a Judas goat to lead him to other members. Spenser enlists the help of his friend Hawk, a powerful ally. Spenser foils the attempts resulting in the deaths of two gunmen and the capture of another. Running an ad for information in The Times results in two assassination attempts on Spenser. Spenser heads to London, England to start his investigation. Spenser is promised USD$2,500 a head for the apprehension of each of the nine terrorists responsible, dead or alive. Parker, first published in 1978.Ī reclusive millionaire, Hugh Dixon, hires Spenser to find the nine members of a terrorist group that bombed a London restaurant where he and his family were dining, resulting in the deaths of his two daughters, his wife and leaving him a paraplegic. The Judas Goat is the fifth Spenser novel by Robert B.
