Original sentence: From Parker, comparing Stone to Spenser: "Jesse is a much more damaged individual who is coming to terms with himself as he goes along,...".Having been dumped by his beautiful actress wife (actress Jennifer Stone), he was sacked from his job as a homicide detective for the LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division because of a drinking problem.He quickly notices that the town is rife with big league crimes — the mob, white supremacists, wildly errant wives and a triple homicide.The Jesse Stone character, starts out at about thirty-five years old, is a departure for Parker in that he is a deeply troubled man
Edited sentence: Having been dumped by his beautiful wife (actress Jennifer Stone), he was sacked from his job as a homicide detective for the LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division because of a drinking problem.He quickly notices that the town is rife with big league-crimes — the mob, white supremacists, wildly errant wives and a triple homicide.Parker, comparing Stone to Spenser, the protagonist of his other series, said, "Jesse is a much more damaged individual who is coming to terms with himself as he goes along,...".The Jesse Stone character starts out at about thirty-five years old.The character of Jesse Stone, a deeply troubled man, was a departure for the author