The Professional - Hardcover

Parker, Robert B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399155945 ISBN 13: 9780399155949

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2009

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.

Review:

'If you are in the mood for a gumshoe thriller, you cannot do better than read The Professional ... the denouement is both unexpected and logical' The Lady. (The Lady)

From the Back Cover:

Spenser has never had any difficulty handling women, but when four stunningly beautiful trophy wives hire him to protect them against a blackmailer threatening to expose their infidelities, even he must admit they look like trouble.
Tracking down the blackmailer poses few problems for a private eye of Spenser's abilities - and almost in spite of himself Spenser finds that he quite likes the guy. Certainly the women, with their loose purse-strings and looser morals, and their loveless marriages to powerful, corrupt men, are hard to feel sorry for.
But a killing soon changes the complexion of the case, and draws Spenser into the world of Boston's monied aristocracy: a world of corruption, vice and murder. As the bodies start to pile up, Spenser must decide which of his friends he can trust.

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0399155945
• ISBN 13: 9780399155949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 289