Chapter 7-9 Summary

Alexander and Spenser walk through the rain and Alexander fills in the private detective on the incident. A VHS tape was mailed to the Alexander home from Boston, and the tape showed Ronni having sex with a man in a bedroom. Alexander warns Spenser that Ronni is not to find out about the tape. If he has no alternative, Alexander says that he will drop out of the political race rather than let his wife know that she has been used in this way.

Spenser returns to Boston and immediately visits a friend who works at the Boston Globe. Reporter Wayne Cosgrove agrees to give Spenser everything that the newspaper has on Congressman Robert Browne, Meade Alexander's opponent. Cosgrove senses a story in Spenser's investigation, and the two men agree to meet for dinner and drinks later that night. Spenser returns...