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* CrazyAwesome: Larrl Lloy by the end of ''Firebeak'', when, after the heist is foiled, he drives up to the crime scene, posing as a civilian employee of the house's owner, then hijakcs the truck with the stolen artwork being kept as evidence.
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* IntrepidReporter: Minor characters from ''Dirty Money'' and ''Backflash''.
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* JumpingOffASlipperySlope: Several times. Notable example include Melander's gang (who take Parker's share of the money but do plan to return it after it helps them finance a bigger score), Menlo from ''The Mourner'' and [[spoiler: Nick Dalesia]]. in the opinion of the others after he kills a cop while breaking out of custody.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: occasionally. Notably, [[spoiler: Chambers]]. in ''The Score'', who is one of the least likablee group members but dies trying to keep the PsychoPartyMember from killing a bunch of innocent firemen.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: a couple books have crooked doctors who fell victim to disgrace or blackmail after referring patients to an abortionist.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Wiss and Elkins, although, interestingly, they aren't explicitly this in the first book and only seem to have started working together so much afterwards. By their final appearance, it's prominent enough that its mentioned their children are dating.
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* AmoralAfrikaner: Several of the villains from ''the Black Ice Score'' while not actual Afrikaners, are from another colonized African country that recently through out the Europeans, with these characters trying to steal the money that could fund a candidate who might let them back in.
* AscendedExtra: Several heisters, such as Nick Dalesia, Dan Wycza, Salsa and Noelle Braselle appear in more secondary roles in one book before achieving a rise in prominence for a later one.
*BadassBoast: Parker excels at these, but one standout is in ''Flashfire'' when after Sheriff Farley and Parker trade some information and end their MexicanStandOff Farley says he’ll always wonder if he could have taken Parker, who replies,
-->''Parker'': Look on the bright side. This way, you have an always.
* BadassCrew: Parker leads several, most notably in the final third of ''Butcher's Moon'' and ''The Score''.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Many of Parker's associates, although Salsa and Littlefield might stand out. A lot of hitmen and mob enforcers that Parker clashes with also have this going for them.
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* BadassCrew: Parker leads several, most notably in the final third of ''Butcher's Moon'' and ''The Score''.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Many of Parker's associates, although Salsa and Littlefield might stand out. A lot of hitmen and mob enforcers that Parker clashes with also have this going for them.
* BerserkButton: In ''Butcher's Moon'', Parker's accomplice Hurley spends a lot of his scenes spewing rage towards Morse, a colleague who sold them the plans to a jewelry store without including the alarm system.
* CassandraTruth: Sheriff Farley in ''Flashfire'' is the only cop to realize Parker’s involvement in the robbery, but can’t convince the rest of the local authorities of this.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Many of the POV characters for a single chapter of the NowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent sections of each book, especially members of Parker's gangs. Most notable is ''The Seventh'' where only [[spoiler: five]]. of Parker's six partners die and all but one of them had a POV section and some good scenes through other characters eyes.
* DrivenToSuicide: Poor Joe Sheer, after being tortured by a CorruptHick after the loot from his heist (which he'd blown on luxuries years ago), and the clients/fingers in [[spoiler: ''Plunder Squad'' and ''Backflash'']].
* DrivenToSuicide: Poor Joe Sheer, after being tortured by a CorruptHick after the loot from his heist (which he'd blown on luxuries years ago), and the clients/fingers in [[spoiler: ''Plunder Squad'' and ''Backflash'']].
* EvilCounterpart: well, eviler counterpart. Quittner, a member of the Tyler mob heavily involved in drug-trafficking is eerily similar to Parker in both personality and demeanor, and one of the few organized crime figures who really seems to understand what makes him tick. They never interact though, and Quittner only shows up in the last thirty pages of the book.
* GoodSamaritan: a slightly more morally gray version than usual comes from Marty form ''Breakout'', who gives a hitch-hiking Parker a ride [[spoiler: and due to being an ex-con himself lies for him when they stop at road block]].
* HiddenDepths: Even some of the most antagonistic characters usually get some depths.
** Cal Dennison from ''Ask the Parrot'' is the first one to figure out Parker’s identity as the fugitive, referencing Poe in the process.
** While Captain Haradawl in ''Flashfire'' is a pretty nasty, highly racist RightWingMilitiaFanatic he did train his men pretty well based on how well they do against the hitmen they stumble across trying to kill Parker.
** Cal Dennison from ''Ask the Parrot'' is the first one to figure out Parker’s identity as the fugitive, referencing Poe in the process.
** While Captain Haradawl in ''Flashfire'' is a pretty nasty, highly racist RightWingMilitiaFanatic he did train his men pretty well based on how well they do against the hitmen they stumble across trying to kill Parker.
* KillerCop: The corrupt main antagonists of ''Backflash'', ''Butcher's Moon'', and ''The Jugger'' all go down this path.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: None of The Outfit besides Bronson object to the idea of a truce with Parker, and Al Lozini also comes to this conclusion after being harassed for the first section of ''Butcher's Moon''.
* LackOfEmpathy: not always but Parker can display this pretty harshly. Notably in [[spoiler:''The Seventh'']]. after being angrily told by [[spoiler: Little Bob Negli]]. who is chasing and shooting at how his (flawed) strategy to recover the money just got the rest of their partners killed or arrested, rather than feel any concern or guilt, all Parker seizes on from that statement is that they’re the last two and he won’t have to split with the others once he kills [[spoiler: Little Bob]]. which won't violate his not-betraying-partners rule since [[spoiler: Little Bob]]. is trying to kill him.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Almost anyone on Parker's heist team who seems really despicable, or any murderer outside of his team, is likely to suffer this fate. One downplayed example is Otto Mainzer, a Neo-Nazi member of Parker's string in ''The Rare Coin Score'', who survives to be arrested but pisses off the police so much that they offer total immunity to the other (more sympathetic) robber they captured to testify against Mainzer, and a later book mentions that his sentence was extended after he hit a guard.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: None of The Outfit besides Bronson object to the idea of a truce with Parker, and Al Lozini also comes to this conclusion after being harassed for the first section of ''Butcher's Moon''.
* LackOfEmpathy: not always but Parker can display this pretty harshly. Notably in [[spoiler:''The Seventh'']]. after being angrily told by [[spoiler: Little Bob Negli]]. who is chasing and shooting at how his (flawed) strategy to recover the money just got the rest of their partners killed or arrested, rather than feel any concern or guilt, all Parker seizes on from that statement is that they’re the last two and he won’t have to split with the others once he kills [[spoiler: Little Bob]]. which won't violate his not-betraying-partners rule since [[spoiler: Little Bob]]. is trying to kill him.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Almost anyone on Parker's heist team who seems really despicable, or any murderer outside of his team, is likely to suffer this fate. One downplayed example is Otto Mainzer, a Neo-Nazi member of Parker's string in ''The Rare Coin Score'', who survives to be arrested but pisses off the police so much that they offer total immunity to the other (more sympathetic) robber they captured to testify against Mainzer, and a later book mentions that his sentence was extended after he hit a guard.
** A few occasions, Parker invokes this while killing a mobster when knowing that someone more reasonable towards leaving Parker alone will take his place.
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* TheNapoleon: Little Bob Zelig in ''The Seventh''. Less than five feet tall, Zelig has a serious case of 'small man's syndrome', and Parker notes that he deliberately says things that no taller man could ever get away with. He even picks fights with Parker which, as his boyfriend points out, is tantamount to suicide. After he finally snaps and starts trying to kill Parker, [[spoiler:Parker dispassionately shoots him in the back of the head]].
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: both enemies and allies of Parker can use this but Zulf Masters in ''Flashfire'' stands out as the worst offender. To quote Parker,
--> ''Parker'': I think he’s somebody comes from a former life where making people dead was the solution to most problems.”
Sometimes this turns into a reavealing coverup.* TheNapoleon: Little Bob Zelig in ''The Seventh''. Less than five feet tall, Zelig has a serious case of 'small man's syndrome', and Parker notes that he deliberately says things that no taller man could ever get away with. He even picks fights with Parker which, as his boyfriend points out, is tantamount to suicide. After he finally snaps and starts trying to kill Parker, [[spoiler:Parker dispassionately shoots him in the back of thehead]].head]].
* NaziNobleman: The villain of ''The Handle''.
--> ''Parker'': I think he’s somebody comes from a former life where making people dead was the solution to most problems.”
Sometimes this turns into a reavealing coverup.* TheNapoleon: Little Bob Zelig in ''The Seventh''. Less than five feet tall, Zelig has a serious case of 'small man's syndrome', and Parker notes that he deliberately says things that no taller man could ever get away with. He even picks fights with Parker which, as his boyfriend points out, is tantamount to suicide. After he finally snaps and starts trying to kill Parker, [[spoiler:Parker dispassionately shoots him in the back of the
* NaziNobleman: The villain of ''The Handle''.
* TheSocialExpert: AffablyEvil Frank Farran is this to the Tyler mob, having friends in criminal organizations across both the city and the country. Due to these contacts, he knows enough to tell Al Lozini it would be a bad idea to fight Parker (once he hears his name) when he's willing to deal, and later he is kidnapped by Parker specifically for this reason, as he knows all the inner workings of the mob and can be interrogated about how to hit their locations.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: most of the non-corrupt cops who chase Parker with any chance of success. Gwen Reversa in ''Nobody Runs Forever'' and ''Dirty Money'', Turley in ''Breakout'', Dougherty in ''The Seventh'' (although it’s undermined a bit as he lets it get personal), Captain Mondale and his men in the last two books, Sheriff Farley in ''Flashfire'', and Moxon in ''Firebreak'' ( although its zigzagged in that the subject of his attention is the heist target and his contact with Parker and his partners is more incidental). Calevecci from ''Comeback'' is a hard subversion, being honest, but an incompetent sadist.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: happens several times in [[spoiler: ''Butcher's Moon'']]. after the mob boss who Parker is able to work with gets murdered in a coup. First the new boss, then TheDragon, then another member of the gang all wrestle power from each other and all come across as this trope.
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* XanatosSpeedChess: Often tried by Parker and/or his partners in the aftermath of a complicated heist. How well it works depends on the novel.
* YoureInsane: Parkers initial reaction to realizing that Edgars wants to rob all the businesses in a whole town in one night in ''The Score'', but he gets persuaded to do it anyway. In ''Backflash'' he has a similar reaction to reading the planners manifesto and realizing [[spoiler: that he had them rob a river boat casino just so he'd be able to latch onto that as proof that gambling attracts crime]].
* YoureInsane: Parkers initial reaction to realizing that Edgars wants to rob all the businesses in a whole town in one night in ''The Score'', but he gets persuaded to do it anyway. In ''Backflash'' he has a similar reaction to reading the planners manifesto and realizing [[spoiler: that he had them rob a river boat casino just so he'd be able to latch onto that as proof that gambling attracts crime]].
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: Parker can and will kill with dispassion, but generally prefers a minimum of violence in his heists and won't kill somebody unless they're trying to kill him directly or indirectly. He also won't take more than his share from a heist unless he's been double-crossed or otherwise screwed over.
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* TakingOverTheTown: In ''The Score'', Parker is recruited to lead a crew to take over and loot and small copper mining town. The town has a curfew, which makes things easier, as the crew only has to take over the police station, the fire station, and the telephone exchange--the only places manned all night--before launching their assault.
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* TakingOverTheTown: In ''The Score'', Parker is recruited to lead a crew to take over and loot and a small copper mining town. The town has a curfew, which makes things easier, as the crew only has to take over the police station, the fire station, and the telephone exchange--the only places manned all night--before launching their assault.
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* BallisticDiscount: ''The Outfit'' contains a story about what happened to a young thug who attempted to pull this on an armourer who provides guns to the underworld. He boasted about what was planning so much that word got back to the armourer. He handed the thug a gun that was rigged to blow up in his hand when he fired it.
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* BallisticDiscount: ''The Outfit'' contains a story about what happened to a young thug who attempted to pull this on an armourer who provides guns to the underworld. He boasted about what he was planning so much that word got back to the armourer. He handed the thug a gun that was rigged to blow up in his hand when he fired it.
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* HallOfMirrors: In ''Slayground'', Parker, cornered by rival criminals in a closed up amusement park, takes a precaution to assure that he will not end up confused by the Hall of Mirrors. He spraypaints a white line across the mirrors in the Hall of Mirrors. That way, when he does not see the white line, he knows he has the actual person in his sights.
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* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Parker served in the army in Europe during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII before being dishonorably discharged for black marketeering. Although he was probably a criminal before he enlisted (or was drafted), it is implied his time in the service is part of why he is so good with firearms. Due to ComicBookTime, his military service is not mentioned in the later novels.
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* DeathByAdaptation: Darwyn Cooke made a few changes in his retelling of the events of ''The Outfit''. In the original, accountant/troubleshooter Quill is [[SpareAMessenger given a message]] by Parker, and thereby survives the events at Bronson's mansion. In the graphic novel, Parker decides to eliminate the middleman and deliver the message himself.
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** Parker's somewhat different characterization in ''The Hunter'' is mainly due to the fact that the story was originally a stand-alone. In both the original and final versions, the end has Parker confronted by some cops who believe he's guilty of one of the few crimes he didn't actually commit in the novel. In the original version, though, [[ShaggyDogStory the cops shoot and kill him]]. Editor Bucklin Moon found this ending unsatisfactory but agreed to buy the novel if Westlake would change the ending, have Parker survive and escape, and provide more Parker novels. Westlake changed the ending, but not some of the other events that make Parker's character even darker in this story than in the future ones.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Parker's not a hero and he doesn't do good deeds, but in ''The Jugger'' he is not setting out with the intent to commit any crimes in particular and actually ends up ridding a small town of a corrupt sheriff. These actions result in blowing his legitimate cover identity, which leaves him broke and in a very bad spot for some time.
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* ComicBookTime: The Parker novels span 46 years and are usually set at around the time they were published; Parker himself remains a grizzled fortyish throughout. There were some references to his military service (and bad conduct discharge) in World War II in the first few novels, which are later ignored. It helps that he is given very little backstory, so there's not much to retcon.
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* TheCorpseStopsHere: Happens to Parker in ''The Seventh'', when he arrives at his hideout to find his GirlOfTheWeek murdered, and the loot from the most recent heist stolen. A few minutes later, two cops walk in and Parker realizes the killer had waited around until he returned and then called the police.
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* BackAlleyDoctor: In ''The Man With the Getaway Face'', Parker attends a clinic run by a highly skilled plastic surgeon who was blacklisted in Hollywood due to his former membership of the Communist Party. These days he specializes in providing new faces to members of the underworld.
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* DecapitationPresentation: At the end of ''The Man With the Getaway Face'', Parker unzips a travel bag to show May the severed head of Wells: proving that he has upheld his end of the bargain and Wells is dead.
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* ShootTheBuilder: In ''The Man With the Getaway Face'', a criminal on the run returns to the underworld plastic surgeon who changed his face and murders him, as the surgeon was the only one to know what his new face looks like. This causes problems for Parker, who is another client of the surgeon, as the surgeon's staff start hunting down past clients for revenge.
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* PragmaticVillainy: In The Handle, Parker is faced with two Mexican thieves who happened to hit his target first, and hidden a portion of the proceeds. Being short on time, he lets them go, noting that an interrogation would be a waste of time, since he doesn't know and Spanish and assumes that they don't understand English.
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* PragmaticVillainy: In The Handle, ''The Handle'', Parker is faced with two Mexican thieves who happened to hit his target first, and hidden a portion of the proceeds. Being short on time, he lets them go, noting that an interrogation would be a waste of time, useless since he doesn't know and any Spanish and assumes that they don't understand English.
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* DashingHispanic: Salsa.
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* NobodyHereButUsStatues: In ''Slayground'', Parker sits in a wax museum display and his pursuers fail to notice him.
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* PinnedToThewall: ''The Seventh'' opens with Parker arriving back at the apartment he is using as a hideout to find the girl he was sharing it with stabbed with a sword that has gone through her and the headboard of the bed to pin her to the wall.
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* PinnedToThewall: PinnedToTheWall: ''The Seventh'' opens with Parker arriving back at the apartment he is using as a hideout to find the girl he was sharing it with stabbed with a sword that has gone through her and the headboard of the bed to pin her to the wall.
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* OneWordTitle: Also a ProtagonistTitle for the series, but also the books which are this trope are also {{Portmantitle}}s for being compound words:
** ''The Hunter'' with its alternate title of ''Payback''.
** ''The Score'' with its alternate title of ''Killtown''.
** ''Slayground''
** ''Comeback''
** ''Backflash''
** ''Flashfire'', which is also a ProtagonistTitle for its alternate title of ''Parker''.
** ''Firebreak''
** ''Breakout''
** ''The Hunter'' with its alternate title of ''Payback''.
** ''The Score'' with its alternate title of ''Killtown''.
** ''Slayground''
** ''Comeback''
** ''Backflash''
** ''Flashfire'', which is also a ProtagonistTitle for its alternate title of ''Parker''.
** ''Firebreak''
** ''Breakout''
* {{Portmantitle}}: All of which are {{One Word Title}}s as well:
** ''The Hunter'' with its alternate title of ''Payback''.
** ''The Score'' with its alternate title of ''Killtown''.
** ''Slayground''
** ''Comeback''
** ''Backflash''
** ''Flashfire''
** ''Firebreak''
** ''Breakout''
* ProtagonistTitle: Also a OneWordTitle, for the title of the series, and the alternate title for ''Flashfire'', which is ''Parker''.
** ''The Hunter'' with its alternate title of ''Payback''.
** ''The Score'' with its alternate title of ''Killtown''.
** ''Slayground''
** ''Comeback''
** ''Backflash''
** ''Flashfire''
** ''Firebreak''
** ''Breakout''
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* RefugeInAudacity: ''The Score'' features Parker and a team [[spoiler: robbing an ''entire town'' in one night.]]
** ''The Green Eagle Score'' features Parker [[spoiler: heisting a payroll from an Air Force base.]]
** ''The Green Eagle Score'' features Parker [[spoiler: heisting a payroll from an Air Force base.]]
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** ''The Hunter''
** ''The Man With the Getaway Face''
** ''The Outfit''
** ''The Mourner''
** ''The Score''
** ''The Jugger''
** ''The Seventh''
** ''The Handle''
** ''The Rare Coin Score''
** ''The Green Eagle Score''
** ''The Black Ice Score''
** ''The Sour Lemon Score''
** ''The Hunter''
** ''The Man With the Getaway Face''
** ''The Outfit''
** ''The Mourner''
** ''The Score''
** ''The Jugger''
** ''The Seventh''
** ''The Handle''
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** ''The Black Ice Score''
** ''The Sour Lemon Score''
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* TheNapoleon: Little Bob Zelig in ''The Seventh''. Less than five feet tall, Zelig has a serious case of 'small man's syndrome', and Parker notes that he deliberately says things that no taller man could ever get away with. He even picks fights with Parker which, as his boyfriend points out, is tantamount to suicide. After he finally snaps and starts trying to kill Parker, [[spoiler:Parker dispassionately shoots him in the back of the head]].
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* TheUnreveal: The name of the amateur who soured Parker's score in ''The Seventh''. The police discover his identity, and at several points the reader almost learns his name, but something always interrupts the action before it is revealed on the page. The novel ends without the reader (or Parker) ever learning who he actually was.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: ''The Seventh'' opens with Parker arriving back at the apartment he is using as a hideout to find the girl he was sharing it with stabbed with a sword that has gone through her and the headboard of the bed to [[PinnedToTheWall pin her to the wall]].
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* RansackedRoom: Parker does this to Brock's apartment in ''The Sour Lemon Score''; emptying every drawer, cutting open every pillow and cushion, and breaking open every stick of furniture where something could be concealed. Brock is shocked that someone could be destructive, and regards the apartment as having been raped.
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* FieryCoverup: George Uhl does this in ''The Sour Lemon Score'' after he murders his two co-conspirators: burning down the farmhouse where the murders took place. He knocks the teeth out of the corpses before setting the fire to make identification of the bodies almost impossible.
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* {{Determinator}}: Nothing will stop Parker once he puts his mind to accomplishing something (usually vengeance). In ''The Hunter'', he goes to war against TheMafia in order to regain money he believes he is owed. In ''The Outfit'', he is such a thorn in their side that they decide it is easier to make peace with him than keep fighting him despite him having killed several of their bosses.
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* PistolWhipping: In ''The Sour Lemon Score'', Parker's opening move in the bank heist is to cold cock the bank guard with his pistol hard enough to knock him out when he turns to look at the distraction.
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* WhatAPieceOfJunk: In ''The Outfit", Parker visits a mechanic who specialises in supplying cars to the underworld. One of the vehicles he shows Parker is a Volkswagen Bug that he has been modifying into a getaway car, with a souped-up engine, reinforced chassis, ballast to allow it to corner properly, etc. The one problem he is having is that he cannot make it sound like a VW. Later in the novel, the reader gets to see the car in action, and he has solved the sound problem, at least at low speed.
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* WhatAPieceOfJunk: In ''The Outfit", Outfit'', Parker visits a mechanic who specialises in supplying cars to the underworld. One of the vehicles he shows Parker is a Volkswagen Bug that he has been modifying into a getaway car, with a souped-up engine, reinforced chassis, ballast to allow it to corner properly, etc. The one problem he is having is that he cannot make it sound like a VW. Later in the novel, the reader gets to see the car in action, and he has solved the sound problem, at least at low speed.
