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ISBN: 1842431854
Price: £18.99
Casing: Hardback
Format: Royal (234 x 156mm)
Extent: 320pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: October 2006

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ABOUT THE BOOK

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When a mature, beautiful and composed April Kyle strides into Spenser's office, the Boston PI barely hesitates before recognizing his once and future client. Now a well-established madam herself, April oversees an upscale call girl operation in Boston's Back Bay. Still looking for Spenser's approval, it takes her a moment before she can ask him, again, for his help. Her business is a success; what's more, it's an all-female enterprise. Now that some men are trying to take it away from her, she needs Spenser's help.

April claims to be in the dark about who it is that's trying to shake her down, but with a bit of legwork and a bit more muscle, Spenser and Hawk find ties to organized crime and local kingpin Tony Marcus, as well as a scheme to franchise the operation across the country. As Spenser again plays the gallant knight, it becomes clear April's not as innocent as she seems. In fact, she may be her own worst enemy.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'Robert B Parker is one of the greats of the American hard-boiled genre'
- Peter Guttridge, The Guardian [read the full review]

'Why Robert Parker's not better known in Britain is a mystery. His best series featuring Boston-based PI Spenser is a triumph of style and substance. '
- Daily Mirror [read the full review]

'Parker writes old-time, stripped-to-the-bone, hard-boiled school of Chandler...His novels are funny, smart and highly entertaining...There's no writer I'd rather take on an aeroplane.'
- Sunday Telegraph

'Nobody does it better than Parker...'
- The Sunday Times

'Parker packs more meaning into a whispered "yeah" than most writers can pack into a page...'
- Janet Evanovich