The Professional A Spenser Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Robert B Parker Joe Mantegna Random House Audio Books
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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.
With its eloquently spare prose and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, The Professional is further proof that "[t]here's hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parker" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
The Professional A Spenser Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Robert B Parker Joe Mantegna Random House Audio Books
I have always loved Robert B. Parker's writing, and in particular the Spenser series, so I'm pretty much a fan of his books before I open the covers. This is not his strongest book (I like "Hugger Mugger" and "Potshot" off the top of my head), but it's very good and it's interesting in that I don't agree with Spenser's assessment of whether the lead villain is doing right or wrong: Spenser doesn't seem to see the harm in some of what this guy is doing which is surprising since Spenser was once a cop and a crime is a crime is a crime. Still, the writing is typically excellent and Parker keeps the pages turning despite the fact that not a lot happens in each chapter. And that's the mark, I think, of a first-class writer: he or she can keep the writing moving forward at a good clip without a ton of action or violence. I found that this book just breezed along and I think that it shows just how polished and elegant (and sparse) Parker's writing is when he's completely on his game. I loved the book despite some of my philosophical differences with Spenser and I'm in awe of Parker's writing genius. This may seem like a pretty simple style of writing, but being a writer myself, I can tell you that simplicity is the toughest thing to create. When you use fewer words, each word you use matters more.A great book, a great read, Parker is the best.
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The Professional A Spenser Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Robert B Parker Joe Mantegna Random House Audio Books Reviews
Like many Spenser books, there is way too much of the insufferable Susan (the most beautiful women in the world with a PhD from Harvard, who spends all her free time having sex with Spenser, talking about having sex with Spenser, or just plain talking about Spenser. It is telling that she doesn't talk about herself, she just acts as a mirror for Spenser's thoughts.).
There is barely any Hawk in the book, but he is such a caricature of an inner city 'Negro' that his character is not particularly entertaining and is, quite honestly, fairly offensive.
A small role by Vinnie Morris livens things up for a bit and there are a pair of thugs who add a bit of spice, but overall, this is a bit of a lazy outing.
That said, the main character, Gary Eisenhower, an amiable gigolo and blackmailer, is so well-drawn and interesting that it makes the book worth reading. I like that Spenser, for once, accepts him as he is and does not try to reform him, thank goodness (unlike in the dreadful 'Six Kill').
I would recommend this book for any Spenser lovers, as even with its flaws, it is an engaging hard-to-put-down read.
(You can skim a lot of the 'Susan' chapters if you find her character unbearable filler.)
Books fall into many categories, one of which is crime. This specialty is further broken down into many sub-species, a few of which are police procedurals, who-done-its, private investigators and others. Robert B. Parker has chosen the private investigator for one of his series of novels, in particular, Spenser, further differentiated into the hard-boiled investigator type. To further differentiate it, Spenser is a former cop who maintains contact and friendship with officials from the city and 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. "The Professional" starts out in this way.
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 for then their husbands would know. 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? I do not wish to spoil the book, read it and form your own opinion. The book is interesting enough.
With Spenser, the crime is one thing, but his perspective on it is another. As he solves the case, he has to get in the minds of the evildoers to find out why they do what they do.
The answers make him sadder, and wiser. It is one of the things that makes him a hero, and makes the whole Spenser series worth reading.
I have always loved Robert B. Parker's writing, and in particular the Spenser series, so I'm pretty much a fan of his books before I open the covers. This is not his strongest book (I like "Hugger Mugger" and "Potshot" off the top of my head), but it's very good and it's interesting in that I don't agree with Spenser's assessment of whether the lead villain is doing right or wrong Spenser doesn't seem to see the harm in some of what this guy is doing which is surprising since Spenser was once a cop and a crime is a crime is a crime. Still, the writing is typically excellent and Parker keeps the pages turning despite the fact that not a lot happens in each chapter. And that's the mark, I think, of a first-class writer he or she can keep the writing moving forward at a good clip without a ton of action or violence. I found that this book just breezed along and I think that it shows just how polished and elegant (and sparse) Parker's writing is when he's completely on his game. I loved the book despite some of my philosophical differences with Spenser and I'm in awe of Parker's writing genius. This may seem like a pretty simple style of writing, but being a writer myself, I can tell you that simplicity is the toughest thing to create. When you use fewer words, each word you use matters more.
A great book, a great read, Parker is the best.
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