Night Passage (A Jesse Stone Novel)

ISBN: 0425183963

Author: Parker, Robert B.

Condition: New

Robert B. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series-a New York Times bestseller.After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stones future looks bleak. So hes shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He cant help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he cant refuse.Once on board, Jesse doesnt 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 hes seeing are like ships passing in the night. He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local hero-or the deadest of dupes.