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When Mike Rodenska, a former journalist and recent widower, visits his old friend Troy Jamison in Florida, he's shocked at what he finds. For despite the parties, the shapely women, the devil-may-care air that surrounds Troy and his friends, Mike can see a life slowly coming apart. The only question is: why?
Putting together the pieces of his friend's life -- and downfall -- turns an ordinary visit into a mystery that Mike Rodenska is compelled to solve . . . .
Putting together the pieces of his friend's life -- and downfall -- turns an ordinary visit into a mystery that Mike Rodenska is compelled to solve . . . .
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“4.5/B+ Loving my re-reads of John D. MacDonald”
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“<strong>I think MacDonald liked this book because he became emotionally involved with the characters and like the way things worked out. </strong>
This book combines a morality play with MacDonald's is at the dispoiling of Florida by developers. World war two and the wealth it brought America in is aftermath changed many values in America. At the time many people questioned the changing values. To some extent every generation goes through that. The pill set the stage for even more dramatic change.
Post traumatic stress disorder was yet to be recognized. She'll shock an extreme and acute version had become part of the vocabulary but as a society we had yet to realize the chronic burden many carried at wars end. That is part of what MacDonald addresses here. MacDonald was there and saw what it did to the combatants, including himself. It probably did him good to get some of that of of his chest.
The scene of action for the novel is an amalgam of a couple of places on Florida's West coast - probably nearer Sarasota. It is interesting to hear him speak of a getaway to Marco. A much different place when the novel was written than it is now. At best it was a sleepy Beach town and fishing village. Having lived on the West coast of Florida for the last fort years I identify with MacDonald's disappointment with all the changes he saw take place.
No doubt one of the reasons I enjoy MacDonald's books is that so many are set in Florida.”
About John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald was an American novelist and short-story writer. His works include the Travis McGee series and the novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear. In 1962 MacDonald was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America; in 1980, he won a National Book Award. In print he delighted in smashing the bad guys, deflating the pompous, and exposing the venal. In life, he was a truly empathetic man; his friends, family, and colleagues found him to be loyal, generous, and practical. In business, he was fastidiously ethical. About being a writer, he once expressed with gleeful astonishment, “They pay me to do this! They don’t realize, I would pay them.” He spent the later part of his life in Florida with his wife and son. He died in 1986.
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