false 6318241 3 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.<BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> With its eloquently spare prose and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, <I>The Professional</I> is further proof that “[t]here’s hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parker” (<I>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</I>). 6503548 6 10 2009 The Professional (Spenser) total:101|5:14|4:39|3:35|2:13|1:0| 101 357 187 42 2 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 08:59:45 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 09:18:54 -0700 2009 1
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Spenser was one of her favorites and continues to be one of mine.

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There's really not a lot of mystery going on.

It was a big letdown because I always expect a good read with Spense...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Oct 14 14:47:45 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 14:52:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:34:45 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 19:07:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 09:50:15 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 04:05:59 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 14:35:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 15:15:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 19:05:29 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 02:07:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 10:37:16 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 10:37:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 20:14:52 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 20:17:30 -0700 2009 Snappy dialogue, story always moves along. You almost hate to keep
reading because the end will come to quickly, and then you'll be
waiting for Spencer and Hawk again!]]>