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I have read each book in the Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald, from The Deep Blue Good-by through all 21 colorful titles, multiple times. A knight errant "part rebel, part philosopher, and every inch his own man, Travis McGee is the handsome, sexy, Florida boat bum with a special genius for helping friends in trouble-or avenging their deaths". MacDonald captures the Florida culture and landscape of '60s and '70s. Steven King, Jonathan Kellerman, and other major authors identify MacDonald as inspiration for their own careers. Lo Kurt Vonnegut said, "To diggers a thousand years from now...the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen". Travis McGee is a young, virile successful Don Quixote with a brilliant international economist, Meyer, as his Sancho Panza. Just joyful adventurous, deeply philosophical, escape, so pleasurable over and over.

Rob

Roanoke, Virginia