Picking up on Mark S.'s comments:
I'd put Hawk and Pike in the non-psycho category. From the
beginning, Pike has had actual conversations with Elvis--not
the tough-talking jive Hawk and Spenser now share--in which
Joe's outlook is often more moderate than Elvis's. L.A.
REQUIEM only put a gloss on the humanity Crais maintained in
him.
Similarly, early on Parker established that Hawk "won't say
yes and then do no." He hurts and kills people
professionally, gets no pleasure from it, and doesn't take
things too far.
By contrast, Mouse, Bubba, and Coben's Win (listed here in
order of debut) *are* the familiar loose cannons who may
change temper in the blink of an eye.
Gerald
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