The Professional, Robert B. Parker
The Professional, Robert B. Parker
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The Professional
A Spenser Novel

Author: Robert B. Parker

Narrator: Joe Mantegna

Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/06/2009


Synopsis

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.

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.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by FrankieL on 2011-09-23 11:38:37

I really liked Spensers personality and spare, but witty dialogue. I liked his relationship with his girlfriend and sometime partner. The plot was interesting and the book kept my attention. The only thing I didnt like is the author frequently writes he said and she said into the dialogue. It becomes excessive and annoying, but after a while you adapt to it and barely hear it. My first foray into Parker territory and Ill be back for more.

Goodreads review by Bobby on October 23, 2018

One of Robert B. Parker’s later entries in the Spenser series, I recalled this one fondly, so recently read it again. I found this to be much better than expected, confirming my initial opinion of it years ago. There is just enough Vinnie and Hawk to keep it interesting, and though any of the vain a......more

Goodreads review by Bill on January 27, 2020

An unsuccessful but somewhat interesting Spenser. All the irritating Spenser things (motive-exploring dialog, Susan, the Tonto-ization of Hawk) are here, but the delightful things (snappy patter, vivid descriptions of places and people, drive-by literary allusions) are here as well. To further compl......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on January 19, 2010

*I wrote this long review where I indulged in some Parker bashing a few weeks back. I just read that he died today. Yes, I do feel like a jackass.* Once upon a 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......more

Goodreads review by James on December 31, 2010

Boston P.I. Spenser makes his thirty-seventh appearance in The Professional. Four women are married to older, wealthy men and each of the women has been having having great sex on the side with a man named Gary Eisenhower. Sadly, Eisenhower has been videotaping his sessions with the women and is now......more

Goodreads review by Bill on November 26, 2018

AUDIBLE BOOK Spencer , hired by 4 women to make a blackmailer back off. Everybody except Spencer is getting murdered. Some of then deserve it.......more