Travis McGee Bright Orange for the Shroud, Book 6, (Paperback)

from waldhaus1

A well done story allowing Trav to make mistakes that almost get him killed. Both the food and bad guys were well realized. It is fun to get on the time machine going back to the Florida of the fifties. I have to wonder if MacDonald himself had bad experience with real estate syndications. He see...

from waldhaus1

A well done story allowing Trav to make mistakes that almost get him killed. Both the food and bad guys were well realized. It is fun to get on the time machine going back to the Florida of the fifties. I have to wonder if MacDonald himself had bad experience with real estate syndications. He see...

from andyray

Boone Maxwell just may be the consummate sociopath villain of all of JDM's books. The way he "goes under" in the end sent chills down my spine. Maybe the fact that Boone is of and talks like a true southener is what makes me fear him most. I have known a Boone once or twice in my life.

from DaveWilde

If you have been reading Spillane's Mike Hammer and Westlake's Parker, turning to MacDonald's Travis McGee is a bit like going from Van Halen to Jimmy Buffett. McGee is a guy who lives on a houseboat ("The Busted Flush") on the Gulf Coast waterways of Florida. He putters about and fishes and only...

from HenriMoreaux

I've been reading through the Travis McGee series this month with Bright Orange for the Shroud being the 6th in the series. It's one of the better books in the series with 4 & 5 also being very good. This time around McGee is looking into a fraudulent scam that conned a rich retiree out of their ...