I was raised on John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series. - TopicsExpress



          

I was raised on John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series. Something about this genre — hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold — never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator. The hero went through hell, but by the last paragraph the bad guy got what was coming to him. Well, good. As a kid I knew it wasn’t always so, but the justice fantasy was addictive. nytimes/2014/06/01/books/review/alan-furst-by-the-book.html?emc=edit_th_20140601&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=67660856&_r=0
Posted on: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 11:34:11 +0000

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