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Name: Promised Land

Author: Robert B. Parker
Year: 1976
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Mystery, Award winners, Thriller, Detective, Hard boiled

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ISBNs:
9780395247716
9780440171973
0395247713
0440171970

Spenser is a wisecracking former boxer turned private investigator and he is just settling into his new office when enters Harv Shepard, a beleaguered businessman who is looking for someone to help locate his runaway wife.

So begins Promised Land, the fourth novel by Robert Parker, that follows the exploits of his cerebral, but tough character, detective Spenser.

Why Harv Shepard's wife abandoned her family and exactly where she has gone comprise only half the intrigue in this story, though Spenser soon discovers that Harv is a man in deep trouble, involved with a crooked loan shark and tangled in an ailing business venture.

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