Tom Lindahl was fired after discovering that the racetrack had an illegal money laundering operation. Now he wants revenge.  Tom's scheme sounds like a good heist, and Parker is just the professional thief to supply the help Tom needs.

There is an organized hunt for the robber by the local Rod & Gun club members, and Lindahl and Parker inadvertently get involved with it.  The club members and the police officers don't know what the robber looks like so they don't recognize Parker as the guy they are hunting.  The man that Parker and Lindahl get teamed with panics; he shoots and kills a homeless man, and from there, the well planned scheme for a lucrative heist starts to go to hell.

Parker is, as always, a cold-blooded professional and he deals at break-neck speed with law enforcement and some of the local amateurs who think they have Parker pegged as the wanted man, but make one mistake after another. Then there is Tom's parrot who watches the circus without comment until one hilarious scene.

Tom doesn't realize how desperate Parker is and what he will do to survive and come out ahead. As Parker reinvents the plan to slip the dragnet and take a weekend's worth of betting money out with him, the story races along to the surprise ending.

We pride ourselves in proclaiming that robbers and murderers should all be put away where they belong, and then a guy like Parker comes along... and we gleefully root for him to foil the law.

(Parker Fans: Bad news if you aren't caught up on reading the Parker novels...they are very hard to find.  Most are out of print, and just not available from the Out of Print dealers. I did find that several, such as Lemons Never Lie (click the author name on this Amazon UK listing to see more of his available books), have been reprinted  in the United Kingdom, and yes, I ordered them for my reading pleasure.