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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Robert B Parker is the bestselling author of more than 30 books, including Small Vices, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise and Hush Money along with Family Honor and Perish Twice, the first two Sunny Randall mysteries (all published by No Exit). He lives in Boston.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

In 1974, a revolutionary group held up the Old Shawmut Bank in Boston's Audubon Circle. Money was stolen. And a woman named Emily Gordon, a visitor in town cashing traveller's checks, was shot and killed. No one saw who shot her. Despite security-camera photos and a letter from the group claiming responsibility, the perpetrators have remained at large for nearly three decades.

Enter Paul Giacomin, the closest thing to a son Spenser has. Twice before, Spenser's come to the young man's assistance; and now Paul is thirty-seven, his troubled past behind him. When Paul's friend Daryl Gordon-daughter of the long-gone Emily-decides she needs closure regarding her mother's death, it's Spenser she turns to. The lack of clues and a missing FBI intelligence report force Spenser to reach out in every direction-to Daryl's estranged, hippie father, to Vinnie Morris and the mob, to the mysterious Ives - testing his resourcefulness and his courageousness.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'the book's genial mood, saucy tone and ripping action...discourage all attempts to put it down.'
- Eugen Weber, The Los Angeles Times [read the full review]

'What makes this superior Parker is the moral dilemma. Spenser is pursuing a case that no one wants him to pursue, including the person who had asked him to in the first place, and six Krispy Kremes is not a good enough reason.'
- Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe [read the full review]

'Parker surrounds his hero with reliable friends and familiar foes to renew their vows to the codes of misconduct that were laid down three decades ago [in The Godwulf Manuscript]'
- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times [read the full review]

'one of the strongest Spenser novels in recent years'
- Michael Carlson, Crime Time [read the full review]