Promised Land

Summary

Boston private eye Spenser takes a case involving a missing wife and a husband in debt to loan sharks, which entangles him with a radical feminist group and a dangerous enforcer named Hawk. Robert B. Parker sharpens his hero's wisecracking voice and moral code while introducing Hawk, who would become Spenser's enduring partner. This fourth Spenser novel marks a turning point in a series that revitalized the American private detective tradition.