Forced to resign from the LAPD for drinking on duty, Jesse knows that the Paradise job is his last chance. One moonlit night in Santa Monica, California, former LAPD homicide detective Jesse Stone ( Tom Selleck) looks out at the ocean, waiting to sober up before driving across the country with his dog Boomer to the small coastal town of Paradise, Massachusetts, where he has been offered the position of police chief. The film first aired on the CBS television network January 15, 2006. Jesse Stone: Night Passage is the second in a series of nine television films based on Parker's Jesse Stone novels. Filmed on location in Nova Scotia, the story is set in the fictitious town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Parker-the first novel in the Jesse Stone series-the film is about a former Los Angeles homicide detective who is hired as the police chief of a small New England town and finds himself immersed in a series of mysteries.

Based on the 1997 novel Night Passage by Robert B. He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local hero-or the deadest of dupes.Jesse Stone: Night Passage is a 2006 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck, Saul Rubinek and Viola Davis. 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. 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. Once on board, Jesse doesn't have to look for trouble in Paradise: it comes to him. He can't help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can't refuse. So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. 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.

Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series-a New York Times bestseller.

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