The saga begins. Already these books have an episodic feel to them. This is season two. Action moves to Maine and other US states that aren't New York. ots of people get murdered. Then more people get murdered. More gangsters, more serial killers. Parker is a crusader against evil, and this series has more in common with the Jack Reacer books than I would have expected, except Parker, though very much a wish-fulfillment character, is not the Marty Stu Reacher is, and has to struggle intellectually, physically, spiritually, morally to defeat the bad guys. He also makes mistakes which makes him more interesting than boring blank-slate Reacher, and Connolly's plots are filled with the grotesque and strange along with more soap opera elements - Parker had an affair with the local sherrif's wife years before - to keep the reader enaged, and distract from being annoyed by Parker's infallible judgements of other people, often based on physical appearance in a way that's almost Dickensian. Morally superior Parker is the most grating Parker