Night Passage

ISBN-13: 9780425183960 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2001 / 432 str.

Robert B. Parker

Opis

After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, the thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak. So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can't help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can't refuse.
Once on board, Jesse doesn't have to look for trouble in Paradise: it comes to him. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman. Against all this, Jesse stands utterly alone, with no one to trust; even he and the woman he's seeing are like ships that pass in the night. He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local hero or the deadest of dupes.
As the flagship volume in a new series featuring a complex and engaging sleuth, Night Passageis cause for celebration."

Recenzje

Praise for Night Passage

Parker s sentences flow with as much wit, grace and assurance as ever, and Stone is a complex and consistently interesting new protagonist. Newsday

Parker has always been a master of razor-sharp and witty dialogue, hard-driving suspense and memorable characterization. His Jesse Stone series promises to match if not excel the Spenser novels. Night Passage is a stunning debut. Houston Chronicle

Vintage Parker. The Denver Post

A page-turner...the protagonist is a believable, full-blooded man of Hemingwayesque dimensions. Full of action, spiced with fast-moving introspection. Forbes

A winner. The Boston Globe

You can always rely on Parker for some great talk and great scenes. Kirkus Reviews

More Praise for Robert B. Parker

If weight is to be given to prolific output as well as to literary excellence, it would be no stretch to claim that America s greatest mystery writer is Robert B. Parker. The New York Sun

O autorze

Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole Everett Hitch westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, he died in January 2010.