Love the Travis McGee character, and Child captures many of his traits. The tale is well structured and engaging. Characters are fully fleshed out. Indeed, we may learn more than we care to know about them. The downside of the story is that the dense pack of facts and observations tends to deter from the pacing of the story. An action-packed narrative is occasionally stalled by an avalanche of unnecessary (to my mind) details.

Slogged thru almost 100 pages but couldn’t go on. Waste of money. Boring, trite, predictable, lousy.

The Travis McGee series is a timeless and transcendent treasure. Every 5 years or so I pull them out and enjoy the books again start to finish.

Love JDM, but these are Outrageously priced. For those kind of prices I’ll head to the library and read the good old hard covers.

Well patience is a virture indeed. Almost fifty years after it began, John D. MacDonald's iconic Travis McGee series finally gets into digital editions. MacDonald is the master of crime fiction, still unexcelled in character, plot, and an uncanny grasp of the cultural zeitgeist of the times in which his novels took place. THE DEEP BLUE GOODBYE sets the pace with an especially callous villain for McGee to bring to heel. Once you begin this series you'll want to motor through them all. And, in my opinion, the prices are a bargain for a writer this mesmerizing.

I wonder what John D. McDonald would say about what it costs to buy a digital copy of his masterworks? Probably, YIPEEEEEEE! , if he had a cut of what Random House will be making off these ripoff prices. Shame on you.