God Save the Child vs The Judas Goat: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Spenser, Massachusetts, Boston, Private investigators, Fiction
God Save the Child
New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers - Book 2 in the series -Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett…
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The Judas Goat
Private eye Spenser returns to take on the terrorists who killed his client's wife and daughters in a London bombing, chasing them across Europe to the Montreal Olympics and a devastating climax.
The verdict
- Readers rate The Judas Goat highest: The Judas Goat 4.4 · God Save the Child 4.0.
- The Judas Goat has the widest readership — 377 ratings behind its score.
- God Save the Child reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 3 times.
How to choose
Scores by source
| God Save the Child | The Judas Goat | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 3.7 (29) | 4.0 (22) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (320) | 4.5 (377) |
Reception
| God Save the Child | The Judas Goat | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 320 | 377 |
| Editions | 5 | 5 |
| Citations | 3 | 1 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 197 | 120 |
| Pages | 185 | 181 |