From a beloved master of crime fiction, ``A Deadly Shade of Gold`` is one of many classic novels featuring Travis Mc Gee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
When Travis Mc Gee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can t help it: He has to meddle.
Especially when he has the chance to reunite Sam Taggart, a reckless, restless man like himself, with the woman who s still waiting for him.
But what begins as a simple matchmaking scheme soon becomes a bloody chase that takes Mc Gee to Mexico, a beautiful country from which he hopes to return alive.
John D.
Mac Donald was ``the ``great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.
Stephen King Deception.
Betrayal.
Heartbreak.
When Sam left his girlfriend, Nora, and vanished from Fort Lauderdale, no one was surprised.
But when he shows up three years later lying in a pool of his own blood, people start to ask questions.
And his old friend Travis Mc Gee is left to find answers.
But all he has to go on are a gold Aztec idol and a very angry ex-girlfriend.
Is that enough to find his friend s killer? And when the truth is as terrifying as this, does he really want answers after all? Features a new Introduction by Lee Child.
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Random House Trade A deadly shade of gold: a travis mcgee novel, paperback/john d. macdonald
