Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole–Everett Hitch westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, he died in January 2010.
""The most memorable Western heroes since Larry McMurtry's...Lonesome Dove."" - ASSOCIATED PRESS ""A sparse, bullet-riddled rumination on law and order."" -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ""A pure pleasure to read."" -LIBRARY JOURNAL ""A reminder of just how much hardboiled fiction owes the Western."" -KIRKUS REVIEWS