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- A Travis McGee Novel, Book 13
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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Publisher's summary
Travis McGee is the strikingly handsome and ever resourceful invention of John D. MacDonald. Born in the author's imagination in 1964, McGee drifted into the world on a 52-foot diesel-powered houseboat, the Busted Flush, which he has used as a base of operations through many adventures. In this book, the private eye outwaits and outwits a deranged killer as he searches for a missing wife on a remote Caribbean island, where he also tangles with a baby-faced businessman with a taste for murder.
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- By: Dennis Lehane
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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With novels like Mystic River and Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane has dramatically altered the landscape of the crime thriller—while boldly overstepping the boundaries that have long separated mystery from literature. Now two of his sensational early novels have been combined in a single volume—two gritty and mesmerizing masterworks of suspense featuring the private eye duo of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro.
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White Bread
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 06-30-12
By: Dennis Lehane
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The Winter of Frankie Machine
- By: Don Winslow
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Frank Machianno is a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. An affable Italian with a love of people and life, he's a stand-up businessman, devoted father, and a beloved fixture in the community. He's also a hit man - specifically, a retired hit man. Back in the day when he was one of the most feared members of the West Coast Mafia, he was known as Frankie Machine.
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Five stars straight across the board
- By Eric Taylor on 06-28-12
By: Don Winslow
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Cat Chaser
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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The hero of Cat Chaser, George Moran, isn't looking for trouble but finds it anyway when he winds up in bed with the wife of a drug-dealing mob-connected Dominican cop - vicious, macho and ready to follow George to the ends of the earth, which in this case means Miami.
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Elmore Leonard and Frank Muller: Unbeatable.
- By Richard Delman on 04-20-12
By: Elmore Leonard
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Laguna Heat
- By: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Laguna: a place where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence - with a fiery vengeance - and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery. It reaches back across 40 years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past.
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Fabulous
- By Stacy on 02-24-09
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Black Wings Has My Angel
- By: Elliott Chaze
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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A legend among noir buffs, Chaze's long-lost pulp classic is the dreamlike tale of a man after a jailbreak who meets up with the woman of his dreams - and his nightmares.
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Guilt..... a deadly emotion !!
- By John on 08-24-14
By: Elliott Chaze
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Quarry
- A Quarry Novel, Book 1
- By: Max Allan Collins
- Narrated by: Christopher Kipiniak
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them…and then removing that problem, as well. So far he's rid of the world of nobody who would be missed. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Does the hitman's hitman have the wrong quarry in his sights?
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The great Max Allan Collins
- By Bradley Paul Valentine on 09-25-16
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Flood
- A Novel (Burke, Book 1)
- By: Andrew Vachss
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her - so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements.
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Noir!
- By Snoodely on 03-06-14
By: Andrew Vachss
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Midnight Sun
- Sinclair Sisters Series, Book 1
- By: Kat Martin
- Narrated by: Rebecca Estrella
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Call Hawkins just wants to be left alone and leave the past where it belongs. The bleak beauty of Dead Horse Creek is a perfect place to get away from the world, a place where nothing exists to remind him of everything he's lost. His isolation is complete - until Charity Sinclair arrives fresh from New York City. Stunningly beautiful and stubbornly independent, she's also shamefully ignorant of the untamed wilderness and the very real dangers she'll face if Call doesn't teach her a thing or two.
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Kat Martin's books are always good but....
- By Jayne on 03-15-19
By: Kat Martin
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The Hunter
- By: Richard Stark
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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You probably haven't noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds. Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at the racetrack. They're heisters.
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A dark story
- By Dave Nelson on 04-06-13
By: Richard Stark
What listeners say about A Tan and Sandy Silence
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- Mountain Guide
- 05-14-20
Travis McGee in the Caribbean
After reading the book and 1972 and collecting all of John McDonald’s works. It was great to revisit this nautical trip of Travis McGee.
I particularly like his description of the islands and Fort Lauderdale. Since I also had a boat at Bahia Mar marina, I take particular delight when Travis is aboard his “Busted Flush”.
John McDonald’s books are a very economical way to travel the world. All aboard?!
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-11-12
This one was odd... But good
This one was all over the map, but the bad guy is truly evil and keeps out-smarting poor Travis. Meyer takes his lumps and almost pays the ultimate price as Travis confronts his own mortality.
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- ROBERT FROM CT
- 08-12-20
I first read this on 45 years ago
I first read this one 45 years ago, just as enjoyable the second time around
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- maxwall
- 03-08-20
travis mcgoo
like the story, but cant they pay some female readers to play the role, I feel like I m in a gay McGee novel
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- Dale Sarver
- 05-27-24
travis gets into impossible situations
I like the action and descriptive prose. john d Mcdonald uses d
Great words to describe everything and keeps it I teresting.
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- Paul Benjamin
- 05-26-20
Petkoff IS Travis McGee
I've made my way through the 21 Travis McGee novels in print not once, but twice and in some instances three times – clearly, I love them and their creator, John D. MacDonald. I've been working my way through the audiobook versions, and just finished "A Tan and Sandy Silence" a day or two ago on (yet another) self-isolating walk. I quite enjoyed it, with two quibbles, one about the story and one about one voice from the always reliable Robert Petkoff.
Story first: It has some of the most chauvinistic and sexist scenes in the whole canon of Travis McGee. The way McGee treats the woman in Grenada, even though she's suspect, is so despicable that it was hard to swallow, especially given McGee's generally enlightened way with the opposite sex. It's really painful to read or hear McGee doing those things (even while making allowances for the period; the book was published in 1971).
Narration second: Petkoff is generally a great mimic, playing all the parts in these novels with seeming ease and effectiveness. But his voicing for the rich English widow who wants McGee to become her partner is just terrible. She sounds like an old biddy; possibly 65 or 75 years old, and when you hear their interchanges, it's hard to imagine the two of them together at all. Otherwise, Petkoff is in top form and very good with accents: like the West Indies characters and the villain of the piece.
Not one of MacDonald's best, but even his not best is very good, and I'm glad I listened to it. This series is a high-water mark for genre fiction.
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- Darwin8u
- 03-17-15
Doesn't want the job, but doesn't mind the money.
John D. MacDonald's pulp novels are a perfect beach read. They are unassuming, consistently over-deliver, produce better one-liners than a George Carlin set AND seem to have captured perfectly a very American, libertarian ethos of the mid-60s to late 70s. Travis McGee is consistently drawn into scrapes that he would rather avoid, beds girls he would prefer to ignore, and kills men he without relish. He perfectly fits Morrell's reluctant hero archetype:
"a tarnished or ordinary man with several faults or a troubled past, and he is pulled reluctantly into the story, or into heroic acts. During the story, he rises to the occasion, sometimes even vanquishing a mighty foe, sometimes avenging a wrong. But he questions whether he's cut out for the hero business. His doubts, misgivings, and mistakes add a satisfying layer of tension to a story"
MacDonald has perfected using the reluctant hero's questions, doubts, misgivings, and mistakes to add heft to his novels. McGee isn't a dime-store hero. He doesn't want the job, but doesn't mind the money, and it seems no one else is qualified to fix the huge mess that has fallen into his lap and seems destined to take him away from the bikinis, boats and beaches for a season.
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- ML
- 05-19-17
Storyline not my favorite
The story was not my favorite of the 13 books in the series so far. The author tried to make Travis vulnerable in this story, which is a nice twist, but it seemed too much so. Almost depressingly so. Also, the story was disjointed in its plotline, the timing felt off continually. And I missed him having a real love interest. Of course, it was still better than most non MacDonald books (he's an amazing author), I am just spoiled by how great the other 12 books in this series were so far.
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- Joshua
- 03-23-18
Not his best
Still pretty good, though. The rant about the 24 hour news cycle was amazing. This was the first McGee I ever read, so it's a sentimental favorite
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- eclectic reader
- 12-19-19
A journey to the Caribbean
McGee gets backed into those particular adventure. As usual his has a couple of brushes with death and bounces between a few women. It ours worked put cleverly and with finesse.
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