When I picked up Stranger in Paradise, A Jesse Stone Novel, I remembered seeing a television movie staring Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone. I've since learned the Jesse Stone series was the basis for seven television movies and the television series, Spenser For Hire, starring Robert Urich, was based on his Spenser novels. The author of these novels, Robert B. Parker, died January 18, 2010.
In this novel, Crow, an Apache Indian hit man who kidnapped residents, killed some of them, and escaped with a boatload of cash, shows up in Jesse's office ten years after the crime. Crow's current assignment is to find Amber, who is living with her mother Fiona and involved with a Latino gang, and return her to her father, Louis, a mobster. However, when Louis orders Crow to kill Fiona first before returning Amber to him, Crow refuses because he doesn't kill women. Crow then takes Amber to Jesse to protect her from both her father and the gang.
About 99% of the time I prefer the book over the movie. This one, however, falls in the one-percent category primarily because the movie was cleaned up (language and sexual content) for television.
I'VE MOVED!
9 years ago
