The Professional
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 289
- ISBN-13
- 9781410417404
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 2009 at 289 pages, The Professional is the 38th entry in the Spenser series. In the reading order it comes right after Chasing the Bear and just before Painted Ladies.
Key facts about The Professional
The Professional is a novel by Robert B. Parker. Readers have had it since 2009. It runs to 289 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Professional. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781410417404 to find the main one.
The Professional is book 38 of 55 in the Spenser series. The series has 54 published books. However, the series starts with The Godwulf Manuscript (1973).
Additionally, Robert B. Parker writes Jesse Stone, Sunny Randall and Cole and Hitch as separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and western shelves. Meanwhile, Silent Night is the latest published Robert B. Parker book on file, from 2013.
About Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker was an American crime novelist credited with reviving and modernizing the hardboiled detective genre for the late twentieth century. A former English professor with a doctoral dissertation on Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, he channeled that scholarship into the Spenser series, following a wisecracking, code-bound Boston private investigator across nearly forty novels beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript in 1973. See every Robert B. Parker book in order.
Its place in Spenser
The Professional is book 38 in the Spenser series. It follows Chasing the Bear. It is followed by Painted Ladies. See the full Spenser reading order.
Spenser is a Boston private investigator -- ex-boxer, Korean War veteran, gourmet cook, wisecracking romantic -- whose one-name toughness (never explained beyond a nod to the Elizabethan poet) masks a code of honor as rigid as any knight's. Robert B. Parker launched the series in 1973 with The Godwulf Manuscript and spent nearly four decades refining a template that became the genre standard: terse, dialogue-driven prose, a hero who talks his way through trouble as often as he fights his way out, and a real…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781410417404
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399155949
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781101147757