Parker's sleuth Spenser returns in a bittersweet thriller mixing memory, desire and danger. This novel tells a constantly surprising tale of past crimes and present perils. A family breaking up was using their son Paul as a pawn; Spenser straightened out the troubled teen. Now Paul has reconciled to his mother's wanton ways and wants to see her, but she has disappeared. He and Spencer follow her trail and Paul is led back, through his own rites of passage, along the lanes of his own memories. The jacket has water stains on the inside flaps at the top and some of the red from the binding rubbed off, only on the inside. The binding looks fine; there is a mark from a sticker on the jacket front. 159 pages, some are a little wavy at the top; no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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