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The wives of Boston's wealthiest men have a mutual secret: they all had an affair with the same cad who's blackmailing them, and Spenser's been hired to stop him. But when the wives start dying one by one, Spenser's new case becomes murder.
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Robert Garofalo
reviewed The Professional (Spenser Series #37) on November 03, 2009
The Professional (Spenser Series #37)
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 complicate matters, the book's principal strength turns into its greatest weakness. Parker introduces an obvious Spenser character foil--Gary Eisenhower--whom Spenser likes and even somewhat admires. Sure, Eisenhower seduces and blackmails the wives of wealthy men, yet he possesses a code and even a kind of bravery--like our hero. The only problem with this is that Parker can't figure out how to make Eisenhower central to the plot, and the ending of the book seems anti-climactic and cobbled together.
There is a new bad guy pair here, though, and the relationship between the smart shooter (Zel) and the dumb gorilla (Boo) almost saved the book for me.
Almost. But not quite.
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