When it seems the star pitcher of the Boston Red Sox baseball team is accepting bribes to lose games, private detective Spenser goes undercover as a baseball writer to find out the truth. But can he uncover the person behind this nasty trail of blackmail before his cover is blown apart...?
Praise for Robert B. Parker:
''Nobody does it better'' Publishers Weekly
''Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe or Lewis Archer . . . Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself'' Boston Globe
''Spenser is a constant revelation for even long-time Parker fans'' Milwaukee Sentinel
''One of the great series in the history of the detective story'' New York Times Book Review
''Reading Parker is like swimming downstream in a river of adrenaline'' Boston Observer
''Robert Parker is still top gun in the tough-guy school of fiction'' Playboy
''Spenser gives the tribe of hard-boiled wonders a new vitality and complexity'' Chicago Sun-Times
''The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today... the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition'' Cincinnati Post
''Reading a Spenser novel is like a family reunion - it makes one feel good'' Library Journal