Title: The Turquoise Lament Pdf A Travis McGee Novel
Funny thing about favors. Sometimes they come back to haunt you. And Travis McGee owes his friend a big one for saving his life once upon a time. Now the friend’s daughter, Linda “Pidge” Lewellen, needs help five time zones away in Hawaii before she sails off into the deep blue with a cold-blooded killer: her husband.
“The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.”—Jonathan Kellerman
When treasure hunter Ted Lewellen saved his life in a bar fight, McGee could never have thought he’d end up paying his rescuer back in such a way. But years later he finds himself headed to Hawaii at Ted’s request to find out whether Pidge’s husband really is trying to kill her, or if she’s just losing her mind.
Of course, once McGee arrives he can’t help but give in to his baser instincts, and as his affair with Pidge gets underway, he can’t find a single thing wrong. McGee chalks up Pidge’s paranoia to simple anxiety, gives her a pep talk, and leaves for home blissfully happy. It’s not until he’s back in Lauderdale that he realizes he may have overlooked a clue or two. And Pidge might be in very serious danger.
Features a new Introduction by Lee Child
Along side of Hammett,Chandler,and Parker, John D. MacDonald was arguably the master of his genre. Is he still worth reading? I fell in love with the Travis McGee series when I was a kid, reading them as they came out. Lost my early copies as I moved around. Later in life I replaced and reread them, kept moving and left them behind again at another place. As an old man a few years ago I decided to buy the series on my Kindle as a Christmas treat for myself. Starting at the beginning with #1(1964), The Deep Blue Goodbye I was underwhelmed and by the time I was part way through #6(1965), Bright Orange for the Shroud I found myself put off by how harshly MacDonald treated his minor characters,and by the way he criticized everything from vegetarians to yoga(disclaimer-I'm partial to both). I stopped reading the series in the middle of the book. Bored one day a few years later I tried the last McGee book MacDonald wrote #21(1985), The Lonely Silver Rain and found MacDonald was just as satisfying but less critical or maybe it was just me who had grown up. Then I tried #18(1979), The Green Ripper and it too showed a less judgmental MacDonald. Deciding that he had changed somewhere along the way I decided working my way backwards would be the safest bet and tried # 16(1975), The Dreadful Lemon Sky,and then The Turquoise Lament/#15(1973) and again I found both to be excellent reads. John D. MacDonald has always been a consummate writer and in his later years before he died in 1986 he seemed to have worked through enough of his demons that he treated the world and his characters with more compassion. May we all do the same.Old friendships are best I've become increasingly turned off by Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, which I loved for a long time, but which seem increasingly formulaic. (The latest one, "Make Me," is so extreme in its revelation of evil that I left it feeling more disgusted than horrified.) And so I recently returned to a much older writer in a similar vein - John D. Macdonald of the Travis McGee books. I was not surprised that the highly appreciative introduction to the re-issued series was written by none other than Child, whose Reacher is an update of McGee in masculine sex appeal, ingenious resourcefulness, and alienation from "normal" society. In re-reading of the McGees, one difference between the two heroes jumps out. Reacher is an outsider with virtually no personal connections other than the obligatory roll-in-the-hay with a smart young lady whom he happens to encounter on one of his nomadic bus trips through the American wasteland. McGee, on the other hand, is an outsider with an almost aching need to repair and maintain connections that meant and continue to mean a great deal to him. Most of the people in peril he "salvages" are someone he used to know or someone close to the person he used to know.. He would g be lost without the intellectual companionship of Meyer, the world-class economist who is his occasional partner in detection. And of course there is his beloved houseboat, the Busted Flush, well stocked with blue-chip jazz recordings and Plymouth gin. Reading Reacher, I increasingly feel his remoteness, his unreality as a character. Returning to McGee, I am back in the presence of an old, very good friend, crotchets and all. "The Turquoise Lament" is McGee at his most personal, most vulnerable. And he remains very good company.Most of the people he "salvages" have had a place in his past and a claim on his feelings. He would be lost without the intellectual, gruff companionship of Meyer, the world-class economist who is his frequent partner in crime-solving. And of course there is his beloved houseboat, the Busted Flush, impeccably maintained and stocked with blue-chip jazz recordings and Plymouth gin. Unlike Reacher's adventures, McGee's are intimate affairs, ripe with nostalgia and self-doubt, long, probing conversations, prickly observations about the "little things" about the modern world that bug him, bittersweet rather than triumphant in their final flavor. You don't marvel at McGee's fearlessness the way you do at Reacher's. You worry about his fragility, not just physical but mental. With ever new Reacher book, I feel his increasing remoteness as a character. Going back to the McGee books, to their different time and place in the 1960s and '70s, I feel I a re-encountering an old, very dear friend. "The Turquoise Lament" is McGee at his most personal and his company is better than ever.
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