The story of two Irish-American families. It begins in Ireland in 1920 when Capt. Sheridan of the IRA has an affair with Hadley Winslow, wife of a Boston financier. To get him off her back she betrays him to the British. He escapes, emigrates to America and comes calling.

The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority. So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more than halfway.

Boston aristocrat Loudon Tripp hires Spenser to investigate his wife's murder, and Spenser soon uncovers high-class scandals and a corpse that might not be dead after all.

"Private investigator Spenser searches for the kidnappers of a lesbian writer who hired him as her bodyguard"--Best Books for Public Libraries, c1992, p. 401.

Set in Los Angeles, private eye Philip Marlowe moves deeper than ever into labyrinths of crime, duplicity, and murder.

When private investigator Spenser is hired by a woman to rescue her fifteen-year-old son from her ex-husband, Spenser ends up protecting the boy and investigating both parents.

Private eye Spenser returns to take on the terrorists who killed his client's wife and daughters in a London bombing, chasing them across Europe to the Montreal Olympics and a devastating climax.