A Tan and Sandy Silence: A Travis McGee Novel

By John D. MacDonald

From a loved grasp of crime fiction, A Tan and Sandy Silence is one of the vintage novels that includes Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
 
Travis McGee is unnerved whilst he gets an unforeseen guest—real property developer Harry Broll, who's confident that McGee is hiding his lacking spouse. indignant and jealous, Harry will get off a shot earlier than McGee can combat his gun away. the item is, McGee hasn’t noticeable or heard from Mary Broll in 3 years, and it isn’t like her to maintain problems to herself—if she’s alive to inform them.
 
“As a tender author, all I ever sought after used to be to the touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me.”—Dean Koontz
 
McGee is a heartbeat clear of main issue. He’s aging, girl Jillian Brent-Archer is attempting to make him calm down, and he’s simply been shot with no reasonable caution. frightened that he’s wasting his contact, McGee makes a decision to get Harry off his case and end up he’s nonetheless in best shape multi function fell swoop.
 
McGee’s look for Mary takes him to Grenada, the place he’s quickly tangling with con artists and terrifying French killers, let alone a slew of combined reasons. now not wallowing in self-pity, McGee has extra urgent concerns—like saving his personal skin. 
 
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