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    <body><![CDATA[The old crew is back for another adventure: Spenser, Susan, Hawk, Belsen, Quirk and assorted hoods and thugs. Out of over 60 books, Mr. Parker has this group in about 2/3 of them. I think I have read them all, and enjoyed most of them.<br/><br/>I think with this one, however, I am through with Spe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75889758">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Once upon time there was a crime writer named Robert B. Parker, and in the early ‘70s, he started a line of books about a P.I. named Spenser.  The books were good and the critics loved him and deemed him the heir to Raymond Chandler.  He wrote about a dozen of these books and everything was great ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79105838">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not sure if it was the narrator or the story but I came very close to not finishing this book. I think Parker must be getting soft in his old age with this book his main recurring protagonist, Spencer, spends more time talking about love than in action against bad guys.<br/><br/>I think I wan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78955281">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 &amp; 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 &quot;cease and desist,&quot; 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, <em>The Professional</em> is further proof that &quot;[t]here's hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parker&quot; (<em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</em>).]]>
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    <![CDATA[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 &amp; 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 &quot;cease and desist,&quot; 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, <em>The Professional</em> is further proof that &quot;[t]here's hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parker&quot; (<em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</em>).]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read many Spenser novels but adore Jesse Stone, Sunny Randall, and his western trilogy (Appaloosa, Resolution, and Brimstone). What I like about them I also liked about this book--likeable characters, including great dogs, fast-moving plot. The very best, though, is Mr. Parker's snappy dia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76301031">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Robert Paarker writes the best books for those of us with short attention spans.  He leads you from character to character as he builds his mystery plots. I love this guy and Spenser, too.  Not a lot of description, great dialogue, reads like a movie script.  Need to find a read a like for Parker as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79785129">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A high three indeed. Spenser is visited by a lady lawyer who wants him to offer a &quot;cease and desist&quot; to a guy who has slept with several of her wealthy clients and then tried to blackmail them. He finds the affable gigilo<br/>but has to delve deeper when bodies start showing up. A really ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80468146">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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