Джон Макдональд - циклы произведений

Знакомая Тревиса Макги просит помочь её подруге, которую несколько месяцев назад бросил муж при обстоятельствах, которые позволяют предположить, что женясь на ней он интересовался отнюдь не невестой, а оставленным её отцом кладом...

Второй роман из серии о Трэвисе Макги, написанный Джоном Д. Макдональдом. Друг Макги просит помочь его сестре Нине в расследовании смерти ее жениха и пропажи большой суммы денег. Большая часть событий происходит в Нью-Йорке и северной части штата Нью-Йорк.

Соответственно названнию, эта книга самая мрачная из серии Макги, здесь мало юмора и нет никакого сексуального подтекста.

Цикл «Тревис МакГи». Другие названия: Глаза с желтизной (перев. К. Котов)

Travis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except these are no ordinary stamps. They are rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth of rare. And if McGee doesn't recognize their value, perhaps Mary Alice McDermit does, a six-foot knockout who knows all the ways to a boat bum's heart. Only it's not McGee's heart that's in danger. Because a syndicate killer has put a contract on McGee. A killer who knows something about stamps . . . and even more about McGee.

Beautiful girls always grace the Florida beaches, strolling, sailing, relaxing at the many parties on Travis McGee's houseboat, The Busted Flush. McGee was too smart--and had been around too long--for many of them to touch his heart. Now, however, there was Gretel. She had discovered the key to McGee--to all of him--and now he had something to hope for. Then, terribly, unexpectedly, she was dead. From a mysterious illness, or so they said. But McGee knew the truth, that Gretel had been murdered. And now he was out for blood...

McGee tracks killers who brutally murder an ailing millionaire. He renews unfinished adventure with Hollywood actress who leads him into a nasty nest of murderers involving a motorcycle gang, porn movies, and mad balloonists. And Mcgee relearns old lesson. Only close to the edge of death does he feel completely alive.

First published between 1964 and 1984, John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series continues to inspire bestselling authors today. Everyone from Stephen King to Jonathan Kellerman has paid homage to MacDonald's work, which defined the genre itself. RHPG now releases, for the first time in trade paperback and eBook, one of the most swashbuckling of the wildly popular thrillers, in which Travis McGee's friend Meyer's neice is blown up in a botched terrorist attack, and only they can make sure revenge is served.