John D MacDonald - Cinnamon Skin Hardcover BCE Edition Book

This listing is for John D MacDonald Cinnamon Skin Hardcover BCE Edition.

Hardcover: 214 pages

Publisher: Harper & Row; Book Club Edition (1982)

Language: English 

Travis McGee investigates the explosion of a cruise boat in the Florida Keys, supposedly the work of a Chilean underground organization.  From a beloved master of crime fiction, Cinnamon Skin is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. In the Florida Keys, a houseboat explodes in a giant white flash, instantly killing the honeymooners onboard. Travis McGee s best friend, Meyer, loses not only his home and every single thing in it but his last living relative. Now he wants answers. And he and McGee plan to get them or die trying. If Travis McGee hadn t arranged a lecture tour for his friend, Meyer would be dead. As it was, Meyer lent the John Maynard Keynes to his just-married niece, Norma, and her husband, Evan, hoping to give them the perfect honeymoon. Instead: tragedy. When a group of Colombian terrorists take responsibility for the brutal act, Meyer and McGee travel to Mexico to seek justice. Or payback. Once south of the border, Meyer and McGee discover many things: Evan s seedy past, a beautiful local named Barbara, a lethal drug cartel, and, perhaps, even Meyer s long lost courage. But does Meyer, always content in McGee s shadow, have what it takes to avenge the killing of the person he loved most?

"To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen."  Kurt Vonnegut

John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 - December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers. MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. His best-known works include the popular and critically acclaimed Travis McGee series, and his novel The Executioners, which was filmed twice as Cape Fear. In 1972, MacDonald was named a grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America, and he won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Mystery. Stephen King praised MacDonald as "the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." Kingsley Amis said, MacDonald "is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels."

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