![]() ![]() In it, McGee travels around Florida, tracking a group of cold-hearted grifters who picked clean his gentle friend Arthur Wilkinson, leaving him a physical and emotional wreck. But he took more time with Orange and it shows. ![]() He wrote the first five books in just a year, a remarkable achievement. ![]() Bright Orange is one of the author’s best. Far from Napoleons of crime, they tend to be affable good ole boys with steel-trap minds or crafty ex-cons or, on rare occasions, beautiful, heartless women. His world, which includes continuing characters, like his neighbor the avuncular, bearlike international economics expert Meyer, is both idyllic and believable. McGee, the powerfully built, six-foot-four suntanned knight, venturing from his Fort Lauderdale-based houseboat on his “spavined white steed” to smote villains and save maidens in distress, has rightly become one of crime fiction’s iconic heroes. ![]() MacDonald wrote with a seductive style that combined strong characterization with compelling plots, complete with cathartic, usually violent moments of evil’s defeat. Brilliance Audio has released the first few Travis McGee novels, and though early series entries, they serve as adequate reminders of the author’s strong points and weaker ones. ![]()
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