quick reading book, PI Spencer hits it off with Gary Eiensenhower who is trying to blackmail some rich gals who he taped having sex with , they are afraid their rich older husbands will disown them. Then the book takes a turn to involve Gary his gal estella and chets wife It was just OK.

bushard | Nov 12, 2009 |

Decent Spenser novel, not enough Hawk. A group of 4 women band together and hire Spenser to get lothario, Gary Eisenhower, to stop black mailing them. But he is 'the professional' with women and is not interested in changing who or what he is. Of course, all is not as it seems and Spenser has to unravel what is happening. Parker pays homage to John Steinbeck with a 'Of Mice and Men' subplot. (

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phoenixcomet | Oct 16, 2009 |

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Series (with order)

Spenser novels (37)

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The Professional

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Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Awards and honors

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 2009)

Epigraph

Dedication

For Emma, who arrived; and for Gracie, who left.

First words

I had just finished a job for an interesting woman named Nan Sartin, and was happily making out my bill to her, when a woman came in who promised to be equally interesting.

Quotations

"It was the week before Valentine's Day, and I was in my office working on the first draft of my Valentine's poem to Susan..."

"I gave her my card, the understated one, where my name was not spelled out in bullet holes."

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