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The Professional 

 (Spenser, book 38)

by

Robert B Parker

The Professional

(Book 38 in the Spenser series)
(2009)
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).
 
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Hardback Editions

November 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1849160090Title: The Professional: A Spenser Novel
Author(s): Robert B. Parker
ISBN: 1-84916-009-0 / 9781849160094 (UK edition)
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
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October 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0399155945Title: The Professional (Spenser)
Author(s): Robert B. Parker
ISBN: 0-399-15594-5 / 978-0-399-15594-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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October 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1410417409Title: The Professional (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)
Author(s): Robert B. Parker
ISBN: 1-4104-1740-9 / 978-1-4104-1740-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Paperback Editions

October 2009 : Perfect Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1849160104Title: The Professional
Author(s): Robert B. Parker
ISBN: 1-84916-010-4 / 9781849160100 (UK edition)
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
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Audio Editions

October 2009 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 0739343890Title: The Professional: A Spenser Novel
Author(s): Robert B. Parker
ISBN: 0-7393-4389-0 / 978-0-7393-4389-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House Audio
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