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![]() | The Professional (2009) (Book 38 in the Spenser series) A novel by Robert B Parker |
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.
With its eloquently spare prose and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, The Professional is further proof that '[t]here's hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parker' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Genre: Mystery
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.
With its eloquently spare prose and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, The Professional is further proof that '[t]here's hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parker' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Genre: Mystery
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Hardback Editions
November 2009 : Hardback
| Title: The Professional: A Spenser Novel Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: 1849160090 / 9781849160094 (UK edition) Publisher: Quercus Availability: Amazon CA Amazon UK Amazon |
October 2009 : Hardback
| Title: The Professional (Thorndike Core) Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: 1410417409 / 9781410417404 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon UK Amazon Amazon CA |
October 2009 : Hardback
| Title: The Professional Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0399155945 / 9780399155949 (USA edition) Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons Availability: Amazon CA Amazon Amazon UK |
January 2009 : Hardback
| Title: Professional, The Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: 1615235361 / 9781615235360 (USA edition) Publisher: Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition Availability: Amazon |
Paperback Editions
September 2010 : Paperback
| Title: The Professional (Spenser Novel) Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: 1594134146 / 9781594134142 (USA edition) Publisher: Large Print Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
September 2010 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Professional (Spenser) Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0425236307 / 9780425236307 (USA edition) Publisher: Berkley Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
July 2010 : Paperback
| Title: The Professional: A Spenser Novel: A Spenser Mystery Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: 1849162239 / 9781849162234 (UK edition) Publisher: Quercus Availability: Amazon UK Amazon Amazon CA |
November 2009 : Paperback
| Title: The Professional: A Spenser Novel Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: 1849160104 / 9781849160100 (UK edition) Publisher: Quercus Availability: Amazon UK |
Audio Editions
October 2009 : Audio CD
| Title: The Professional: A Spenser Novel (Spenser Novels) Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: 0739343890 / 9780739343890 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
2009 : Audio CD
| Title: The Professional Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: 1415965617 / 9781415965610 (USA edition) Publisher: Books on Tape Availability: Amazon |
Kindle Editions
July 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Professional: A Spenser Novel: A Spenser Mystery Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: B002WEPFAC Publisher: Quercus Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
September 2009 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Professional (Spenser) Author(s):: Robert B. Parker ISBN: B002DW9342 Publisher: Berkley Availability: Amazon |
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