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<\/a><\/p>\nSo I bought this one and brought it home. It didn’t take me very long to see that this wasn’t written by Robert B. Parker. In fact, I googled it and found out that Parker has actually been dead for quite a few years. I felt a bit bad for this author since he doesn’t even get full billing on his own effort, or so it seems to me.\u00a0 I actually think the cover borders on a bait-and-switch.<\/p>\n
I read the thing. It’s not a bad book. It had some sizeable plot holes. The thing I didn’t like was that it seemed to be a mixed salad of every device I had seen in my previous exposure to Jesse Stone movies and books:<\/p>\n
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- They had not one but two(!) evil people make a turn toward the “light side” at the end in addition to the gangster who helps Jesse with a needed underworld connection.<\/li>\n
- Jesse beats up a bad guy who is needs it because he abuses women.\u00a0 The bad guy is big but he is really a bully and Jesse instinctively knows that.<\/li>\n
- Jesse meets a girl and has wild sexual adventures but feels conflicted the whole time but not enough to divert his attention.<\/li>\n
- Jesse suffers through the shame of a misused past and bad friends and the pain of regrets that he can’t control but he grits his teeth and carries on in the face of further inevitable disappointments.<\/li>\n
- Not one but two (!) of Jesse’s deputies go above and beyond the call of duty and get injured for it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
It had almost all of the regular characters, and for those left out it had replacements in addition to multiple mentions and allusions!<\/p>\n
The ending is an ominous warning from the remaining unrepentant bad guy.<\/p>\n
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[Saturday: 5 miles; today: 3.5 miles] We were in Books A Million the other day and I picked up a book to read.\u00a0 I’ve enjoyed watching the Jesse Stone series on Netflix and I decided to see if they had any books in that series.\u00a0 And sure enough they did. So I bought this one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5682,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}