Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller. Frail and broken, Lois can barely get out of bed when Travis finds her, let alone keep herself alive.
Features a new Introduction by Lee Child. MacDonald "McGee has become part of our national fabric. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. As he's limping along the deserted road, someone in an old truck takes a few shots at him. Soon, McGee infiltrates the group and takes on its sexy operative, with explosive results. McGee and his economist friend, Meyer, are are fishing while tied up to a bridge, minding their own business, when a woman is thrown off the bridge and sinks like a stone.
McGee dives overboard and is able to rescue the woman-despite the fact that herfeet are wired to a cement block. The woman, Vangie, turns out to be a high-priced prostitute who was involved in a scam gone bad. McGee and Meyer are finally able to get the gist of Vangie's story, and decide to help.
This is the first novel where the character of Meyer, briefly on stage in earlier books, is finally fleshed-out as a character. JDM said once that Meyer was probably closer to himself--not the character of Travis. MacDonald presents his hero, Travis McGee ,. Longtime friend Glory Doyle has come to McGee for help. McGee suspects blackmail, but can't. Tush Bannon, is dead, murdered by some ruthless individuals who could care less that he had a wife and three children.
He was just there. But one thing they never could have figured. McGee delves into the mystery of a rich and beautiful wanton who happens to be losing her mind, a little piece at a time. As he probes, he uncovers some of the strange corruptions that simmer behind the respectable facade of a quiet Florida town. The wench is dead--but Travis McGee was backtracking her wild, sad trail through the bizarre world of the hippies and drug freaks who had found haven in Mexico.
McGee would need all his cool, all his insight, to live up to the estimate of the rich and beautiful woman who perhaps held the key to the puzzle. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. And, when he goes to the local sheriff to complain ,the intrepid Travis mcGee finds himself arrested and charged with murder. Is this what they call Southern hospitality? Travis McGee is having the time of his life--he's doing nothing but enjoying.
That is, until long-ago acquaintance Harry Broil comes abroad, gun in hand, threatening. McGee within an inch of is life, accusing Travis of making off with his wife, Mary.
Mary was an old friend, one whom Travis prizes dearly. Now he has to find her. Except they were not ordinary stamps. No indeed. They were rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth. Even so, McGee was not all that interested in them until a generously- endowed amazon named Mary Alice McDermit made her grand entrance A syndicate killer had put a contract out on McGee.
A killer who knew something about stamps, and veen more abou McGee. Pidge was special. First time McGee saw her she was in pig-tails andglassy-eyed in love for him. Now she was a grown woman and married to an ex-football jock named Howie. When he got the letter from Pidge McGee grabbed the first jet to Hawaii, and dried her tears.
Howie was trying to kill her, she cried. McGee began to check on them both. Suddenly Travis began to appreciate what dangerous game he stalked. But McGee needed proof, a trap. And what better bait than himself?
Carrie Milligan, arrives in the middle of the night, while Travis is asleep on his houseboat, The Busted Flush. She is looking older and used and very scared.
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