The Deep Blue Good-By
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781469299020 (146929902X)
Publish date: 2013-02-19
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Edition language: English
Series: Travis McGee (#1)
It's easy to see why Travis McGee's legend endures. He's a white knight in tarnished armor, a decent man who lives by his own moral code and personal philosophy on the outside of society, on a houseboat called The Busted Flush. No stereotypical P.I., he's a self described "salvage expert" who will f...
An enjoyable re-read of an old favorite. John D. MacDonald was one of my first excursions in following an author and I read everything I could get my hands on for awhile and though I have since moved on to other genres and favorites, he will always hold a place in my favorite authors. This one has m...
An enjoyable re-read of an old favorite. John D. MacDonald was one of my first excursions in following an author and I read everything I could get my hands on for awhile and though I have since moved on to other genres and favorites, he will always hold a place in my favorite authors. This one has m...
“Tears and seawater taste much the same”. Looks like your average sixties sex-romp, doesn’t it? Far from it. Yes, the women are either dancers or victims, the men (other than the hero) monsters to varying degrees, and yes McGee gets hit on by an air hostess but Travis has a maudlin, philosophising s...
The book has blurbs on the back cover praising it from Stephen King, Higgins Clark, Koontz, Grafton, Kellerman, Parker, McBain--and I can understand why. This is very much in the hard-boiled detective style--first person with a protagonist who deals with shady characters, a mysterious past with hi...