
He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local hero-or the deadest of dupes. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by the town board of selectman to become police chief of Paradise, a small town on Boston's North Shore. Parker, the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. NARROW PASSAGE, LONELY MOUNTAIN - NIGHT ANGLE ON: BILBO races through a NARROW. Against all this, Jesse stands utterly alone, with no one to trust-even he and the woman he's seeing are like ships passing in the night. Night Passage A prequel to 'Stone Cold' in the series of Jesse Stone novels by Robert B. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery seriesa New York Times bestseller. Nigerian Army Base Holding Terrorism Suspects Suffers Attack In Night. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption-replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman. Once on board, Jesse doesn't have to look for trouble in Paradise: it comes to him. He can't help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can't refuse. So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series-a New York Times bestseller. He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local hero-or the deadest of dupes.Robert B. Against all this, Jesse stands utterly alone, with no one to trust-even he and the woman he’s seeing are like ships passing in the night. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery seriesa New York Times bestseller. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption-replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman. Summary: Stone leaves California for his new job as chief of. Once on board, Jesse doesn’t have to look for trouble in Paradise: it comes to him.


He can’t help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can’t refuse.

So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief.

Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series-a New York Times bestseller.Īfter a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak.
