![]() ![]() What's more, a lot of gun permits have been issued in Paradise lately, none of them to members of minority groups. The town's former police chief is blown to bits in Wyoming while the girlfriend of the town's leading citizen is left dead and naked on the high school grounds. But there are far more serious crimes being committed in Paradise. Soon after that, city attorney Abby Taylor shows up to lecture Jesse on civil liberties and ends up in his bed. "I don't think he'll come back,'' Jesse tells the man's ex-wife. Called to the scene of a domestic dispute, his answer to the taunts of an abusive ex-husband is a quick, violent kick to the groin. ![]() Jesse limits himself to a couple of scotches a day, more or less (mostly more), but only at night and quickly shows that he's still one tough cop. If the town's leaders were hoping for a police chief they could push around, they picked the wrong man. Only, why would the town fathers offer the job to an applicant who showed up drunk for his interview? At 35, Jesse is on the fast track to nowhere when he's offered the job as chief of police of Paradise, a small city near Boston. An unfaithful wife drove him to drink, which ended a career as a Los Angeles homicide detective. ![]() Parker's "Night Passage,'' has seen a lot of highs and lows in his life, but lately he's been more down than up. 21 - Jesse Stone, the flawed hero of Robert B. ![]()
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