A Rahal driver, Buddy Rice, had won the Indianapolis 500 in 2004, and many expected the team, which now included Patrick as one of its three drivers, to repeat in 2005.
But Parker's real coup in this novel is introducing us to Zebulon Sixkill, the athletically gifted Cree Indian Spenser rescues from a demeaning job as Jumbo's "driver, booze buddy and pimp".
"This makes me feel so good," the driver's buddy said.
This is a made-for-television story: Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, the 31-year-old driver, took a buddy and a bulldog in drivers' goggles on his drive, as well as a Kodak camera.
Yahoo news noted that it was particularly cold that morning -- about 41 degrees; The bus driver yelled, 'Hey buddy!' as he braved the cold weather and got off the bus.
Hoping to grab themselves a truck and a load of whatever it is that Mexican truck robbers like robbing from trucks, they pulled a driver and his buddy from their cab at gunpoint, beat them, nicked their Volkswagen Worker pickup, and hit the road.
But it's out of the frying pan and into the fire for Fay; back at the mobile home where the pickup's driver and his buddies live, the fellow she was kissing tries to force her to perform fellatio.
Maybe it was just cognitive dissonance: punishing, rather than protecting, Mr. Johnson would have required the governor to acknowledge that he had trusted his career, not to mention his life, to the wrong buddy, the wrong driver.
She tells me she's going to walk back to her spot and I'm giving her a hug goodbye when the two guys in the Camaro drive by, windows down, and the driver yells out, "Fuck her, buddy.
While the really cool rocker driver and his soldier wannabe buddy [pictured above] from the Berliner Tafel waited around for the people at grocery chain Lidl to deliver them the daily boxes, we rummaged through a trash container that had everything the Tafel didn't take.
On the taxi ride to the airport, the travel buddies asked their driver to stop at several of the most important tourist attractions and take photos of them in front of each one.
