How does the author use satire in the novel, The Godwulf Manuscript?

Parker satirizes the local professional criminals when the story extends beyond the confines of the campus into the underworld that is supplying drugs to students and faculty alike. Of course, the difference is that their being the bad guys we expect them to behave improperly and to exploit people for their own gain, and the hoods do not make any pretense of behaving otherwise. Spenser operates as he always does to puncture the pretense of the pompous, whoever they may be, and to expose the nasty realities which lie below the normality of everyday life.