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Cargando... Nightmare in Pink (1964)por John D. MacDonald
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I like Travis McGee, but sending him to NYC just doesn't work. It felt like McGee was mostly blundering around on the periphery of the conspiracy and had little to do with the bad guys ultimately getting stopped. The 60s era understanding of cognitive science was annoying too. Not one of his better adventures. ( ) Mike Gibson was an Army buddy of Travia McGee's when they both served in Korea. Mike was blinded and otherwise injured and is in a VA hospital. He gives McGee a call and asks for a favor: his sister's fiancé was mugged and died, and he wants Travis to help her out. Travis will do anything for his old friend and heads off to New York City. Travis is taking his retirement a little at a time. He takes a job when he needs some money and then retires until he needs funds again. He's a sort of knight errant in tarnished armor. He'll help someone who needs him in exchange for half of what he recovers. Nina Gibson has some questions about her fiancé. After his death, she finds $10 thousand in a shoe box and doesn't know how he came by the money. As Travis begins to look he discovers a complex financial scheme going on. Some con artists are taking a wealthy guy for millions which means that Travis might have gotten in over his head. Travis stumbles into trouble and finds himself in a hospital where illegal experiments are going on. He's been dosed with an LSD-like potion and learns that the wealthy guy had had the same thing done to him before he had a lobotomy. He manages to get out, leaving a trail of bodies behind him, and gains a bit paycheck from the wealthy guy's wife. He also gets the girl - at least temporarily. Travis McGee is a character I first met in 1972 when I was riding Greyhound busses between graduate school and my hometown. He was an interesting sort of hero. He has a strong moral center, but it isn't conventional morality. His attitude toward women reads more than a little chauvinistic at a 50 year remove. But still, if a person is in really bad trouble, Travis McGee would still be my choice of a hero to call upon. I enjoyed this walk down memory lane. The narration was well done. I am undecided whether I like this series. The style is more of a hard-boiled mystery (not my favorite sub-genre) and the 1960s feel to the books is strong (especially regarding sex). However, Travis McGee himself I find intriguing -- he is the missing link between Robin Hood and the TV show Leverage. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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It is well-known that the detective Travis McGee doesn't like to leave the Bustled Flush, the yacht in which he lives in Fort Lauderdale. However, an old friend will require his help in New York and McGee must go and meet Nina, his friend's sister, whose fiancé has just been found dead in unclear circumstances. Ya se sabe que al detective Travis McGee no le gusta demasiado ausentarse de Florida, sin embargo, cuando un antiguo compañero de armas al que le debe la vida le pida un favor, a McGee no le quedará más remedio que atender su llamada e irse a Nueva York. Allí se encontrará con Nina, la hermana de su viejo amigo, cuyo prometido acaba de morir en extrañas circunstancias. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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