num_pages: 402
description: Robert B. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series—a New York Times bestseller.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. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can’t help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can’t refuse.Once on board, Jesse doesn’t have to look for trouble in it comes to him. 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. 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. He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local hero—or the deadest of dupes.
language: English
title: Night Passage
titlecomplete: Night Passage (Jesse Stone, #1)
characters: Captain Cronjager, Captain Cat (Night Passage), Peter Perkins, Jo-Jo Genest, Jesse Stone, Kirk Douglas (Night Passage), Hastings 'Hasty' Hathaway, Captain Healy, Elliott Krueger, Charlie Buck, Lou Burke, Molly Crane, Reverend Cotter, Duke Vincent, Carole Genest, Michelle Merchant, Jennifer Stone, Abby Taylor, Gino Fish, Tom Carson, Madeline St. Claire, Ben Romero, Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson, Guy Fusco, Cissy Hathaway, Anthony DeAngelo, Vinnie Morris, Matthew Ploughman, Tammy Portugal
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Police, Crime, Murder Mystery, Suspense
ratings_count: 13211
places: Paradise, Massachusetts, Wyoming, Boston, Massachusetts, Los Angeles, California
series: Jesse Stone
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons