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Laddar... Pale Gray for Guilt: A Travis McGee Novel (urspr publ 1968; utgåvan 2013)av John D. MacDonald (Författare), Lee Child (Inledning)
VerksinformationPale Gray For Guilt av John D. MacDonald (1968)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. One of the better Travis McGee novels, filled with mystery, shady financial dealings, and revenge, all set in a Florida that once was. ( ) I found this 9th entry in the Travis McGee series to be above average -- it had the social commentary that I like so much without the sometimes disturbing 1960s view of women & sex. Don't get me wrong, there are women and sex! But some of the earlier books in the series had a bit too much of a masculine 50s/60s attitude about women which bothered me and I found that happily missing in this one. As I have mentioned in some of my other reviews of the McGee books, Travis McGee is clearly the forerunner of the TV show Leverage; his job is to help out the guy who has been 'done wrong' by the rich & powerful. Usually the deal is for McGee to "recover" what was taken for a 50% cut but this time what was taken was his college buddy Tush Bannon's life. Perhaps the con he arranges with the help of his friend Meyer to punish the men who were trying to snatch Bannon's property is illegal or immoral but the reader is rooting for McGee to succeed all the way. I am rereading the McGee series and have not been disappointed. They have held up quite well. In the middle of this one, though, I almost started skimming. The details of the scam McGee runs to gain revenge on his friend’s killers didn’t make sense and my eyes glazed over. But then I came to the last two chapters and everything about this book changed. Those chapters are the best of MacDonald and of McGee. It boosted my rating from three to four stars and I left the book anticipating #10. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Ingår i serienTravis McGee (9)
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HTML:From a beloved master of crime fiction, Pale Gray for Guilt is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. Travis McGee??s old football buddy Tush Bannon is resisting pressure to sell off his floundering motel and marina to a group of influential movers and shakers. Then he??s found dead. For a big man, Tush was a pussycat: devoted to his wife and three kids and always optimistic about his business??even when things were at their worst. So even though his death is ruled a suicide, McGee suspects murder . . . and a vile conspiracy. ??As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me.???Dean Koontz Tush Bannon was in the wrong spot at the wrong time. His measly plot of land just so happened to sit right in the middle of a rich parcel of five hundred riverfront Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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