Mortal Stakes (Spenser, #3) (Penguin crime fiction)

by Robert B. Parker

Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life. 

Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with Linda's past...or to find himself trapped between a crazed racketeer and an enforcer toting an M-16. 

America's favorite pastime has suddenly become a very dangerous sport, and one wrong move means strike three, with Spenser out for good!

• ISBN10: 0140043993
• ISBN13: 9780140043990
• Publish Date: 27 October 1977 (first published 23 September 1976)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 10 July 1997
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
• Edition: New edition
• Format: Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
• Pages: 176
• Language: English