John D. MacDonald

Travis McGee vive en el Busted Flush, un yate que ganó en una partida de póker y que tiene amarrado en Fort Lauderdale, Florida. No quiere ni oír hablar de tarjetas de crédito, planes de jubilación, partidos politicos, hipotecas ni television. Solo trabaja cuando no tiene dinero y lo que pide es sencillo: te ayudara a recuperar lo que te han quitado siempre y cuando pueda quedarse con la mitad.Aunque McGee no va mal de dinero, no puede decirle que no a Cathy, una dulce chica que ha sido maltratada por su manipulador exnovio, Junior Allen. Lo que Travis no imagina es a cuantas mujeres Junior ha hecho trizas antes. La ultima de ellas, Lois Atkinson, casi no puede levantarse de la cama cuando Travis la encuentra. Cazar a Junior no sera facil ni limpio.Adios en azul es la primera de las veintiuna novelas de John D. Macdonald dedicadas al detective Travis McGee. Publicadas a lo largo de veinte años son una buena muestra de la sociedad norteamericana de la epoca, desde los años de Kennedy a la era Reagan; su exito lo consagro como uno de los maestros norteamericanos del genero negro.Para los arqueologos de dentro de mil años, las obras de John D. MacDonald seran un tesoro a la altura de la tumba de Tutankamon. Kurt VonnegutUn narrador magistral, un escritor de suspense extraordinario () John D. MacDonald es un ejemplo para todos nosotros. Hablamos del mejor. Mary Higgins Clark El escritor mas entretenido y fascinante de nuestra epoca. Stephen King Una influencia ineludible en los escritores que tienen como tarea escribir una serie sobre un personaje. Envidio la generacion de lectores que descubrio a Travis McGee y me cuento entre los muchos lectores que disfrutan de sus aventuras de nuevo. Sue Grafton

American bachelor Miles Drummond, living in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and running out of money, half-heartedly places an ad in a few US newspapers announcing a summer art workshop. Much to his surprise, thirteen students write for details, and arrive in Cuernavaca a few weeks later.The hotel Miles has rented is crumbling. The VW bus he borrowed is a disaster. The two instructors he hired hate each other on sight. But the students - young and old, single and married, rich and poor - arent simply looking for an education. Some are fleeing private anguish. Others are seeking romance. All will find more adventure than they ever dreamed possible.

Clint Sewell knew there wasnt a wife within fifty miles who didnt have reason to murder Mary Olan - because there wasnt a husband around who didnt think the grass was greener in Mary Olans bedroom. The latest occupant was Sewells boss, Dodd Raymond - a man not above using Sewell to cover up his sins. And maybe not above letting Clint take the rap when the fabulous Mary is found dead in Sewells bedroom closet with his belt around her neck.

Corporate hatchetman Hubbard is on his way to an industry convention to carry out a termination - a fancy way of saying hes about to toss a man and his family out in the street. But the convention is a modern Sodom of cheating husbands and ambitious wives, ready to put out as much as necessary to ensure their husbands jobs - and a plan is afoot to smear Hubbard ...

A hurricane of terrifying intensity is looming over Florida. Along a state highway, a handful of foolhardy souls trying to outrun the storm are forced to seek shelter in an abandoned house. Thrown together by nothing more than chance, this disparate bunch of misfits includes an undercover agent seeking revenge for a personal tragedy, a burgeoning criminal in over his head, a beautiful young widow trying to start over, and a businessman whose lifes work is crumbling before his eyes. Their refuge from the awesome power of nature becomes a sort of grand and grisly hotel - especially once the invisible hand of flying death descends.

Her veneer was big city ... But one look and you knew that Toni Raselles instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders bare. Eyes deep-set, a girl with a gypsy look. So this was the girl I had risked my life to find. This was the girl who was going to lead me to a buried fortune in stolen loot.

A choice collection of seven short stories by one of Americas foremost storytellers and the author of the best-selling Travis McGee series.Featuring Dear Old Friend, The Annex, Quarrel, Double Hannenframis, The Random Noise of Love, The Willow Pool and Woodchuck, this collection displays MacDonald at his classic best. Starring a cast of immoral broads, hedonistic thrill-seekers, naive victims and profligate playboys, these seven short stories showcase the writing that propelled John D MacDonald to success.

Sam Glidden owed all his success to the opportunities hed received from Thomas McGann, president of the Harrison Corporation. But now McGann was dead, and Mike Dean, a wildly flamboyant business speculator, was looking to add the Harrison Corporation to his long list of conquests.McGanns spoiled offspring, Tommy and Louise, saw the chance to make instant big bucks by selling out their shares. But Sam Glidden couldnt stand to see everything hed worked for gobbled up by a barracuda like Mike Dean. So he wangled an invitation to the sand-and-surf soiree Dean planned for Louise and Tommy in the Bahamas ...

The Varaki family run the local grocery store, but tragedy hits the family hard. The sudden death of the matriarch of the clan is followed by the favourite sons death in Korea. The teenage daughter falls in with a bad crowd and theres also the other son, Walter, who has been dipping into the till to fund his escape from Doris, his sharp-tongued wife. Then there are the villains ...When their lives intersect the action builds to a bloody and explosive conclusion ...

For years the Delevan family image reflected only the best of everything - wealth, position, influence, and the kind of expensive good looks that take generations to cultivate. No one dared suspect that their glittering façade, their cherished privacy masked hidden lusts, furtive pleasures and twisted dreams that would soon erupt into a pattern of strange violence that threatened to destroy them all.

Her employers are the high priests of Las Vegas and she is their handmaiden. Her job is to lead the lambs to the sacrifice, to keep them happy at the tables, where her partners slaughter the suckers. She longs to be free of the entertainers rubbing elbows with thugs at the craps tables, the divorcees hocking their jewels next to all-night marriage chapels, and the little white balls bouncing along the roulette wheels twenty-four hours a day.But no matter how hard she tries to escape her past, shes fated to be caught for ever backstage in the sick glitter of the infamous strip with nothing but sand and neon and money, money, everywhere.

Alex Doyle is a tough man on a tough assignment in Ramona Beach, Florida - the kind of place that doesnt trust strangers and is policed by a sheriff who echoes the locals sentiments with a billy club. But Alex isnt an outsider, exactly. He grew up in Ramona Beach - until they railroaded him out of town. Cant trust trash, they said.Alex has never been back, until his employer sends him home to locate a government scientist and get him out alive. Unfortunately for Alex, Ramona Beach has a long memory. Unfortunately for Ramona Beach, so does Alex.

Leo Rice seems like a nice enough guy, but why does he have to choose their beach? He could head ten miles up the Florida strip and everyone could just live happily ever after - no questions asked.But Leo Rice does ask questions ... and suddenly Stebbins Marina, an oasis of easy living, hard drinking and free love for its residents, is in jeopardy. And in less than a month, their paradise will be interrupted by twisted emotions, buried hatred - and brutal murder.

Dillon Bryant, a successful engineer, is off on assignment after finishing his honeymoon. But news from home comes that his new bride, Laura, a beautiful woman whom he had met only weeks before proposing marriage, is in deep trouble. By the time he gets to her, Laura has been murdered. Filled with grief and rage, he cannot leave it up to the police to solve the case - he wants his own kind of revenge against the killer ...

Travis McGee, beach bum and ''salvage expert'' (he''ll retrieve what you''ve lost for 50 per cent), lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale. Instead of taking retirement at sixty, he takes it in chunks as he goes along. If he likes you he''ll help you, and he likes Cathy Kerr, who has been robbed of everything but her dignity...the first in the series establishes the fast-talking, wisecracking standard MacDonald maintained for over 20 years.

In life, Jane Ann never had much use for a halo, but in her violent death she finally earned one. When they found a suspect, everyone relaxed except Hugh MacReedy.Maybe he should have stayed out of it, but MacReedy owed a big debt to the patsy they were sending to the electric chair in a week. And he would have stayed out of it, if hed known what his chances were of coming out alive ...

Step by step, Dwight McAran built a wall of vicious hate around himself. It was easy. He was a man who could slap one woman to death because she loved him, and hum a love song to another while he raped her.Sure, he did some time in jail. He sat in a cell and simmered for five long years until his hate hardened to a core of white-hot evil. Revenge was all he craved - and a plan was what he had - a plan just cruel enough to please him, and just crazy enough to work.

The stage was set. Harry Mullin had hit town first. But he had just made the FBIs Ten Most Wanted list, and he was a little nervous about being seen. With him at the rented house where they planned to case the job was a girl named Sal. Then the Ace turned up. Hed been good in his day but had lost something in the guts department. But the last one in town was Ronnie. Ronnie had killed 12 men and two women in seven years and had gotten to like his job - maybe a little too much ...