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When Spenser is hired to protect a senatorial candidate and his promiscuous wife, he finds himself involved in blackmail and drug dealing in Washington, D.C

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This is another author I read religiously, and the connection between Spenser and Hawk is one of the primary reasons why. But this book has stayed with me in a way the others haven’t because of the dramatic way Parker clarified the difference between these two characters in one of the most impactful closing scenes in the entire series.

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