Spenser · Book 38
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.
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