Character Profile: RAFFERTY

Name: ______ Rafferty

Alias: None

D.O.B.: July 13 1944,

Birthplace: Dallas, Texas

Height: 6’2”

Weight: 220 lbs

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Hazel

Identifying Marks: 4 inch scar on upper left chest

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As Raymond Chandler wrote in his definitive essay on the detective genre, “The story is this man’s adventure in search of a hidden truth, and it would be no adventure if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure.”

Rafferty is such a man.

As Rafferty moves against the undercurrents of a grim, brittle world, his actions—and his very comments—reveal his character and personal commitment to a code some might think antiquated.

Rafferty is a smartass. He’ll laugh at your Art Deco ashtray and he’ll flirt with your wife. He owns an old car and he drives it over things. Many people find him exasperating and inflexible.

But if you’re one of life’s victims, when the evil ones move in for the kill you just might find Rafferty beside you butting in with two hundred twenty pounds of wisecracking sudden death on the hoof.

Does Rafferty really exist? No.

But, dammit, there should be someone like Rafferty.