[book_talk] Book review - John D. MacDonald
- From: "Bonnie L. Sherrell" <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:01:59 -0800
_Nightmare in Pink_
by John D. MacDonald
read by Robert Petkoff
When Mike Gibson asks his friend Travis McGee for a favor, Trav can't
say no. Years ago in Korea Trav took liberty instead of Mike, and by
the time he got back Mike had been critically wounded and was headed
stateside to spend the rest of his life in a nursing home, blind and
with almost no mobility.
The problem now is Mike's kid sister, Nina. Nina was engaged to Walter
Plummer, who died in a tragic mugging. Something that she's learned
since Plummer's death has set her off, and she is cursing his name and
generally behaving irrationally. Mike wants Trav to help her sort out
her feelings and to find out precisely what about Plummer and his death
has caused this disruption to Nina's ability to think straight.
Plummer was working for the Armister Foundation, and believed just
prior to his death that something was up and that someone was raiding
Armister's fortune. He was on the edge of proving it when he was
mugged and died. Was his death truly due to a random mugging, or is
there something nastier going on behind the scenes? It is up to Trav
to figure out what's really going on here, and to try to protect Nina
from becoming the next victim of what appears to be a spreading
corruption throughout the New York financial scene. But when Trav
presses to closely, he himself finds himself an unwilling guinea pig in
someone else's experiments.
I've always loved the Travis McGee books, and this one did not
disappoint so many years after reading it the first time. An
interesting look at the early days of LSD experimentation, by the way.
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise
cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
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