Merry Mansfield

Merry is the razor girl that the title references. She works for people who order a rear-end fender bender crash to that they can get the victim to pay a debt they have been trying to avoid paying. As the goal was to always get money, to kills the person, Merry sees herself as "an independent contractor in the collection process" (17). Her signature is the bikini-shaving aspect that blames on causing the crash. When the novel opens, she has hit a car, but his time it is the wrong one. The subsequent kidnapping of Lane Coolman instead of the intended victim, martin Trebeaux, sets off the major storyline in the novel. As Buck has to perform without the Help of Coolman, he makes racial slurs that cause him to shave his beard at Clippy's, go into hiding, keeps Coolman in Key West, and spurs Krill to taunt...