Tush Bannon was in the wrong spot at the wrong time, and the fact that he was a nice guy didn't mean anything to the jackals who ganged together to pull him down. But one thing they could never have figured ... Tush Bannon was Travis McGee's friend.

First published between 1964 and 1984, John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series continues to inspire bestselling authors today. Everyone from Stephen King to Jonathan Kellerman has paid homage to MacDonald's work, which defined the genre itself. One of the most suspicion-filled of the wildly popular thrillers, in which Travis McGee tries to figure out whether his friend's daughter is really about to be killed by her husband.

About a family menaced by a vicious killer out for revenge.

"When Travis McGee 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 McGee to Mexico, a beautiful country from which he hopes to return alive"--Publisher's web site.

"He could never deny Meyer anything. So before Meyer even said please, Travis McGee agreed to accompany his hairy friend to Mexico. There, on a fat expanse account provided by the father who had lost touch with her, they would reconstruct the last mysterious months of a young woman's life. They expected to find the usual gaggle of post-teenagers, rebelling against their parents. What they found in the charming Oaxaca town was stranger, kinkier, and...

He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half ...

Someone is trying to kill Travis McGee, someone linked to southern Florida's drug traffickers--either Miami's old-time underworld or the new generation of Latino drug barons--and in order to save his own life, McGee must detonate a drug war.

Hired to find the person who killed an ailing tycoon with his bare hands, Travis McGee must contend with the tycoon's disinherited artist son and his aging actress wife.