The Deep Blue Good-By [antikvár]

IntroductionIWAS born and raised near Bahia Mar, the Fort Lauderdale yacht basin where Travis McGee moored his poker-prize houseboat, the Busted Flush.Slip F-18, as every true fan of John D. MacDonald knows.Here roamed one of American fiction's most popular recurring knightsMcGee, knockabout retriever of lost fortunes, saver of spiral-ing souls; McGee of the deep-water tan; scarred knuckles, and untender mercies.Rugged and sentimental, fearless and flawed, he was everything a connoisseur of private-eye capers could want. "Wary of all earnestness," is how McGee described himself although he made exceptions when it came to his love life.