The Professional: A Spenser Novel
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Series:
Spenser novels volume 37.
Published:
Books on Tape 2009
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Description
A knock on Spenser's 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 she's developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower- and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment goes from blackmail to murder.
As matters become more complicated, Spenser's longtime love, Susan, begins offering some input by analyzing Eisenhower's behavior patterns in hopes of opening up a new avenue of investigation. It seems that not all of Gary's women are rich. So if he's 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.
As matters become more complicated, Spenser's longtime love, Susan, begins offering some input by analyzing Eisenhower's behavior patterns in hopes of opening up a new avenue of investigation. It seems that not all of Gary's women are rich. So if he's 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.
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Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
10/06/2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781415965627
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 3.3, 6 Points
Level 3.3, 6 Points
Lexile code:
HL: High-Low
Lexile measure:
440
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APA Citation (style guide)
Robert B. Parker. (2009). The Professional: A Spenser Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Robert B. Parker. 2009. The Professional: A Spenser Novel. Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Robert B. Parker, The Professional: A Spenser Novel. Books on Tape, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Robert B. Parker. The Professional: A Spenser Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2009.
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Bestseller Parker makes producing snappy banter look easy in his 37th Spenser novel (after Rough Weather
). He also manages to draw new readers into the Boston PI's major personal relationships—with love interest Susan Silverman and friend/ally/bodyguard Hawk—without shoveling on the backstory. Spenser agrees to help a quartet of married women fend off extortion demands from stud Gary Eisenhower, with whom each has had an affair. Meanwhile, the husband of one of the women under blackmail threat hires some thugs to deal with the matter. 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. The absence of major personal developments for Spenser or his associates marks this as a less memorable entry than others in this iconic series, but it remains a solid, enjoyable contemporary detective novel.
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