{"product_id":"robert-b-parkers-damned-if-you-do-isbn-9780425270073","title":"Robert B. Parker's Damned If You Do","description":"\u003cb\u003ePolice Chief Jesse Stone returns in another outstanding entry in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn’t exactly beautiful, but she’d tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParadise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn’t know her name. Whoever she is, she didn’t deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. And more blood will spill before it’s over.\u003cb\u003ePraise for Robert B. Parker \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Not for nothing is Parker regarded as the reigning champion of the American tough-guy detective novel, heavyweight division.”\u003ci\u003e—Entertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the Jesse Stone novels \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If Spencer is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd for Michael Brandman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Brandman] is just the writer to carry Jesse into the future. No one understands what makes Bob Parker’s Jesse Stone tick better than Michael Brandman.”—Tom Selleck, star of the Jesse Stone TV movies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Part of a grand tradition...\"—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I would personally like to thank Robert B. Parker for creating an admirable character like Jesse Stone and Michael Brandman for continuing his adventures and helping to keep Parker’s memory very much alive.”—BookReporter.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Will help meet insatiable demand for all things Parker.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brandman nails Parker’s compressionist prose.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brandman perfectly reproduces Parker’s style in [an] impressive continuation of his series featuring Jesse Stone.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRobert B. Parker \u003c\/b\u003ewas the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Brandman\u003c\/b\u003e, the award-winning producer of more than thirty motion pictures, collaborated with Robert B. Parker for years on movie projects, the Spenser TV movies, and the Jesse Stone series of TV movies starring Tom Selleck. Brandman co-wrote the screenplays for \u003ci\u003eStone Cold\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNo Remorse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInnocents Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBenefit of the Doubt\u003c\/i\u003e, and supervised the screenplay adaptations of \u003ci\u003eNight Passage\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDeath in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSea Change\u003c\/i\u003e. He and Selleck were executive producers of the entire series. Brandman lives in California.","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302718066917,"sku":"NP9780425270073","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780425270073.jpg?v=1767735838","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/robert-b-parkers-damned-if-you-do-isbn-9780425270073","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}