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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780449224588
ISBN number: 0449224589
Label: Fawcett
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: February 26, 1996
Publishing house: Fawcett
Release Date: February 26, 1996
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Travis McGee arrives in Chicago to investigate the theft of thousands of dollars during Glory Doyle's husband's last painful year and uncovers a particulary sadistic blackmailer. Reissue.
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I've been reading the Travis McGee series in order, and this book, 8th in the series, is nowhere near the quality of the preceding books. The plot is okay, not great, it feels like it was pieced together as MacDonald went along. There are many portentous remarks of the 'had I but known' variety, and the McGee/Heidi sexual psychiatric healing scenes are pure undiluted bilge water. Up to now I felt MacDonald painted a McGee who was fairly honest about his (McGee's) sex life, but in this book Travis comes off as a real Gary Stu character. Even his detective work was so so SO easy. Granted, one of the joys in reading these books is that Travis is just that bit more quixotic, more reflective, more sun-soaked than anyone in real life, but in this book Travis is so much more of everything, and it really got my gag reflex working. Now, having said this nasty stuff, this book is not bad enough to put me off McGee for life. I'll go right ahead with the subsequent book and hope Travis regains his form. And if he never does, those very first seven books were still worth the price of admission.
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I'm a huge fan of the Travis McGee series, but I urge you to be careful with this one. For the very first 250 pages, McGee makes solid choices and dodges all the bullets. However, he makes a fatal blunder at the end that any reader could see coming a mile away. I was powerless to stop it, solely at the mercy of MacDonald's writing. McGee's blunder gets the main girl hurt really bad. I suffered from borderline post-traumatic stress for the rest of the evening after finishing this book. Be careful, and know what you're getting into before investing time in this book.
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I have liked the other McGee books, but this one was sickening. The novel suffers from the ponderous exposition, as other reviewers noted. And the ending--without spoilers, I can say that it was so over-the-top violent and deliberately disturbing that I wonder about the author's mental health. And the solution came on what was a clumbsily-written deus ex machina. Get another McGee book--any other McGee book--but not this one. This is one of the few books I've wished I could un-read.
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This entry of the T. McGee series was not up to plot or craftsmanship found in most of John D. MacDonald's work. To me, it seemed at times to be almost a parody of the usual McGee...too much TALK of broken birds, and just not enough of the rough and tumble action we have come to expect from Ol' Trav. But don't worry, things are back on track in the subsequent one, PALE GRAY FOR GUILT. I've wondered if there wasn't something going on in JDM's personal life to make this entry seem so lacking?
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Travis McGee, sometimes modern Robin Hood and most-times beach bum, can't resist a pretty face or an old friend. So when an old flame calls and needs some help, McGee quickly leaves balmy Ft. Lauderdale for the colder climes of Chicago in John D. MacDonald's One Fearful Yellow Eye.
Glory Geis is the widow of renowned neurosurgeon, Fortner Geis. When Geis dies after a long illness, Glory discovers that his $600,000 inheritance (much bigger money in the 1960's) has gone missing. It turns out that Dr. Geis liquidated all his assets over the course of the last year of his life. Glory is left without very much money and her stepchildren accuse her of foul play. So Glory begs McGee to find out what happened to the inheritance. Of course, Travis discovers that the good doctor has more than a few skeletons in his closet, and there are a number of suspects.
The plot in this 8th book is a little thin, and I figured out fairly early who the blackmailer was. But I still gave One Fearful Yellow Eye four stars as the writing is sharp and crisp and as good as any previous McGee. Two favorites include:
"Take her home. Boat her, beach her, bake her, brown her, and bunk her. You too are a sucker for busted birds, starving kittens, broody broads."
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"There was no colour in the world. Gray sand, gray water, gray beach, gray sky. I was trapped in one of those arty salon photographs of nature in the raw, the kind retired colonels enter in photography contests."
In terms of philosophizing, this book is MacDonald at his best. Also, while I tend to like McGee better in his native Florida, Chicago is rather a good setting for him.
This is my 8th Travis McGee and I'm a long way from being tired of him. I'm anxious to start number nine-Pale Gray for Guilt.
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