I discovered Travis McGee when I was 17. I read them all and I wanted to be McGee when I grew up. He was smart & tough, and the thinking man’s James Bond, with something to say. I‘m reading them again at 73. Like me, McGee now has some rust on him. He doesn’t quite fit in the modern world (nor would he want to). He’s quite old fashioned & very opinionated. A modern reader may find it strange — a world of no cell phones, no computers, and where women are the wives of cops, businessmen & politicians, which is not to say the women are not intelligent, tough, nor capable of making their own decisions. Do the books still work? Yes, because JDM could write. And the truths & concerns of which he wrote are still true & valid today. And, yes, I still want to be Travis McGee when I grow up.

Dull

Such good writing, wish there were more JDM