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The Professional (Hardcover)

By: Robert B. Parker (Author)

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"The action takes its time getting to a dead body, but, as usual, the smooth, entertaining prose more than compensates for any deficiencies of plot."

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Hired to counter a blackmailer who has had affairs with several wealthy women, Boston private eye Spenser finds the case turning violent when the women are systematically murdered, a situation that is complicated by the discovery that not all of the blackmailer's conquests make sense. By the author of Rough Weather.

A knock on Spenseras office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years sheas developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: theyave all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhowera and now heas blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower acease and desist, a so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenseras assignment goes from blackmail to murder.
As matters become more complicated, Spenseras longtime love, Susan, begins offering some input by analyzing Eisenhoweras behavior patterns in hopes of opening up a new avenue of investigation. It seems that not all of Garyas women are rich. So if heas not using them for blackmail, then what is his purpose? Spenser switches tactics to focus on the husbands, only to find that innocence and guilt may be two sides of the same coin.
With its eloquently spare prose and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, "The Professional" is further proof that a t]hereas hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parkera ("Pittsburgh Post-Gazette").

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"Professional" certainly is one way describing Gary Eisenhower's affairs. Blackmailing wealthy women after he documents their philandering activities together is how the man pays his bills. But when four of them join forces against him, they hire Robert B. Parker's old-school PI, Spenser, to track him down. With macho husbands out to protect their honor against a remorseless Don Juan, however, things start getting messy for Boston's hard-boiled hero.

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