Parker looked at the hard-bodied girls on roller skates, weaving in and out among the retirees. Everything that was extreme was here.
Farley found a fire hydrant and stopped next to it. ‘I give up,’ he said. ‘Hold on, here’s your quarter.’ It came from a cup on the dashboard.
‘Thanks.’
‘You know, Parmitt,’ Farley said as Parker opened the door, ‘it’s kind of an anticlimax for me, you just walking off like this.’
‘Yeah?’
‘I’ll always wonder,’ Farley said, ‘if I could have taken you.’
‘Look on the bright side,’ Parker told him. ‘This way, you have an always.’
THE PARKER SERIES:
Point Blank (1962) aka The Hunter
The Mourner (1963)
The Outfit (1963)
The Steel Hit (1963) aka The Man with the Getaway Face
The Score (1964) aka Killtown
The Black Ice Score (1965)
The Jugger (1965)
The Handle (1966) aka Run Lethal
The Seventh (1966) aka The Split
The Green Eagle Score (1967)
The Rare Coin Score (1967)
The Sour Lemon Score (1969)
Deadly Edge (1971)
Slayground (1971)
Plunder Squad (1972)
Butcher’s Moon (1974)
Comeback (1997)
Backflash (1998)
Payback (1999)
Flashfire (2000)
Firebreak (2001)
Breakout (2002)
Nobody Runs Forever (2004)
Ask the Parrot (2006)
