| The Professional - A Spenser Novel - Book Club Edition |  | Author: Robert B. Parker
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: Book Club
ASIN: B003ATWENY
Publication Date: 2009
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Spenser is a former cop who maintains contact with officials from the city, state police and the FBI. These officials are so impressed with Spenser they cooperate with him in his investigations, sometimes even withdrawing from areas in which Spenser is interested and letting him proceed on his own, maybe even encouraging him since he can do things they are constitutionally forbidden from doing so a solution can be found. The private investigator is often paid by some other character in the book to do some work for him beyond what the official police would do.
Spenser is contacted by a lawyer who wants to hire him to investigate a man who has seduced a group of married women and is now blackmailing them to keep from telling their husbands about his successful seductions. Threats and physical violence do not seem to be successful and publicly revealing their affairs is the last thing these women want. Spenser meets the seducer and likes the man. Four women are involved, none of whom can go to the cops and reveal her affair for then the others would be revealed. This seducer has already been jailed for his blackmail in another case that Spenser tracks down and thus shows his willingness to do so again if necessary.
Spenser pulls in some favors, or tries to and finally manages to get Gary Eisenhower to decide not to have sex with the gang Spenser is representing, mainly by appealing to Gary's sense of ethics. This is only one of a series of names he uses, Spenser learns a lot of them. And then the killings start. When a book is written with a private investigator, its ending is indeterminate since what the P. I. is after determines what the ending should be. Now with the murders Spenser wants more than just the blackmailing to end, he wants the murders to stop and maybe more, have the murderer caught. Parker pulls a switch again with this book, do the police ever know who the murderer was and how it all stopped?
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