Silent Night

A special gift for the holiday season--a rumination on Christmas as conceived by Robert B. Parker.

"Brann does a seamless job...Diehard Parker fans will be delighted." --Publishers Weekly

It's December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he's confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide. Homeless and alone, Slide has found refuge with an organization named Street Business, which gives shelter and seeks job opportunities for the homeless and lost.

Slide's mentor, Jackie Alvarez, is being threatened, and Street Business is in danger of losing its tenuous foothold in the community, turning Slide and many others like him back on the street. But it's not a simple case of intimidation--Spenser, aided by Hawk, finds a trail that leads to a dangerous drug kingpin, whose hold on the at-risk community Street Business serves threatens not just the boys' safety and security, but their lives as well.

Unfinished at the time of his death, Silent Night was completed by Parker's longtime agent, whose decades-long association with Parker's work gives her unique insight and perspective to his voice and storytelling style. Her contribution also speaks volumes about their enduring friendship.

Author: Robert B. Parker, Helen Brann
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 11/04/2014
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780425271612
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Robert B. Parker was 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. Visit the author's website at robertbparker.net and on Facebook at facebook.com/RobertBParker.

Helen Brann was Robert B. Parker's literary agent for thirty-two years, from 1978 to 2010, and is the literary executor of the Robert B. Parker estate. She is the owner of the Helen Brann Agency, Inc., which she founded in 1973.