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The Deep Blue Good-by

The Deep Blue Good-by

Published
1964

Synopsis

The first Travis McGee novel. Travis McGee, a self-described "salvage consultant" living aboard his houseboat the Busted Flush in Fort Lauderdale, takes on a case for a young woman whose father hid a fortune smuggled home from World War II — only for it to be stolen from her by a violent con man. McGee sets out to recover it, and to make the man who took it pay.

About the author

J
John D. MacDonald

John D. MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania but dropped out to move to New York City, where he took menial to support himself. While attending the School of Management at Syracuse University, he met Dorothy Prentiss, and they married in 1937. He graduated from Syracuse the following year, and in 1939 he received an MBA from Harvard University. During World War II he served in the Office of Strategic Services in the Far...