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Five Complete Travis McGee Novels: A Tan and Sandy Silence / The Dreadful Lemon Sky / The Empty Copper Sea / The Green Ripper / Free Fall in Crimson
Five Complete Travis McGee Novels A Tan and Sandy Silence / The Dreadful Lemon Sky / The Empty Copper Sea / The Green Ripper / Free Fall in Crimson Author:John D. MacDonald Travis McGee is the strikingly handsome and ever resourceful invention of John D. MacDonald. Born in the author's imagination in 1964, McGee drifted into the world on a 52-foot diesel-powered houseboat, the Busted Flush, which he has used as a base of operations through many adventures. — A TAN AND SANDY SILENCE: new... more »s of a former girlfriend's mysterious disappearance leads McGee to the West Indian island of Grenada. There he takes on a whirlwind plot of double-dealing, shady financing and shifting identities.
THE DREADFUL LEMON SKY excerpt: "She came to me now, years later, looking older and used and very scared. She had a lot of money with her. Over a hundred thousand dollars. She wanted me to keep it safe. Until she returned. And no questions, please-for old times sake. So I kept the money, but Carrie never came back. And never would. She was suddenly very dead."
THE EMPTY COPPPER SEA: Van Harder, once a hard drinker, has found religion. But that doesn't keep folks from saying he murdered his employer, Hub Lawless, whose body hasn't been found. To clear his name, and clear up the mystery, Van asks friend-in-need Travis McGee to find out what really happened. What McGee finds is that Timber Bay is a tough town to get a break in when you're a stranger asking questions. But what he also finds is that, dead or alive, Hub Lawless is worth a lot of money. Some are eager to get a piece of that action -- and some are willing to take more than a piece out of anyone who gets in the way ...
THE GREEN RIPPER: In what is nearly his final adventure, Travis McGee falls deeply in love with Gretel, his live-aboard boatmate. Then Gretel is horribly and impersonally murdered. Desperate and half-demented, McGee sets out to find the killers. The trail leads him to the Church of Apocrypha, an eerily familiar religious cult whose converts are given terrorist training.
FREE FALL IN CRIMSON: a Travis McGee mystery that was the choice of four book clubs upon its publication. It is the story of an inherited fortune and an unsolved murder. It ranges from Florida to California and involves McGee in everything from motorcycles to movies to hot air balloons. As the pace quickens, McGee moves with increasing assurance and in the book's turbulent climax is fully restored as our reigning folk hero.« less