Somewhere at this moment Bonny Lee and Kirby are driving someone mad, and enjoying every moment of it.

If you have ever had a yeasty yearning for complete freedom and complete immunity, you will covet something those two have.

This book will tell you what to look for, and how to use it if you can steal it.

Best of luck.

In this book, John D. MacDonald turns from suspense to

A story of fanta...

This book is about a mysteri...

This is a novel of wild adventu...

If Thorne Smith and Mickey Spillane had collaborated on...

Sheesh! It’s a story — by one of America’s great storytellers.

Read it.

Every ring champ knows the time when he’s too slow, too tired — too old to win. For those who can’t quit, there’s only one thing to do — lean into the storm of red leather and keep on trying for—

They are the best and most dangerous game in the solar system — better than the Venusian fire lizards or the awesome winged snakes of Callisto — these strange, vicious beasts called “Men”!

The man lay dying in the street. She walked on without even turning, carrying in her white shoulder bag his grisly legacy of death.

Five in six weeks it had been: Rape and murder in the deserted park. When would the next one happen?

There was the heat of money.

There w as the heat of wanting.

There was the heat of the Bahamas and Golden Coast of Florida after the season had ended.

Texas money had gone to the Bahamas by pleasure boat for a dirty purpose. Enough unrecorded cash to change a dozen lives, or end them, and the scent of it was carried on the hot tropic winds.

This is a novel about the half- people, the twisted ones who caught that scent and devised a merciless plan, and it is about the whole people, the compassionate ones who find themselves in the way of the brutal mechanisms of greed and are either destroyed by it, or become stronger than before.

Here are the boat people, the land-grabbers, the displaced Cubans, the swingers, the fun people, the con artists, the shrewd, the silly, the romantic, the idealistic, all of them caught up into an inevitable pattern of violence, suspicion, fear and despair that reaches from Nassau to Brownsville, Texas, from Havana to Dinner Key, from Miami to the empty silence of the Great Bahama Bank.

It all hinged on the survival of the broken girl, adrift and unconscious in a tiny boat on the giant blue river of the Gulf Stream.

Many will read this novel as a very solid and persuasive story of suspense and adventure. But it has in addition, that distinctive power and style, that hidden resonance and purpose which the legions of MacDonald readers have come to except from him.

To his new readers we can only say: this is a Book.

It will stay with you a long, long time.

Creator of Travis McGee, and author of over sixty novels, John D. MacDonald (1916-) is most highly regarded as a mystery writer. But he has also written three science fiction novels, including that delightful fantastic mystery, “The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything”. Recently, a collection of his shorter fantastic fiction, “Other Times, Other Worlds”, was released, and perhaps the best of them is “The Legend of Joe Lee,” a touching portrayal of social crimes and generational conflict.

They had a secret power that would astound Jerry — who had sent them to ease his breaking heart.

Walter wondered if his daughter really knew this poised and terribly polite young man.

The smell of stale bedrooms and warm gin hovered over that whole section of town. The women, even the young girls, walked a certain way, looked at men a certain way.

There was a drifting threat of violence everywhere, and the kids of the neighborhood knew all about knives, garrison belts and bicycle chains long before they were pushed into high school by weary truant officers.

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Calcutta, the fabulous city, plays host to this strange adventure of an American man of science and the mystery of the notched ears.

Was she his only hope? He had to know and time was running out.

A hard-boiled young production expert finds himself saddled with a man of vision from Washington — and sparks fly fast.

There were sharp smashing blows — an infinity of pain.

A great invention — it enabled a man to think with perfect clarity, his thoughts unclouded by emotions. And did that make trouble!

The hook-shot kid was no longer part of the desperately battling quintet he had once sparkled to glory... but for one hurricane half, he had one more thing to give them — a downcourt miracle that could turn a five-star false alarm into—

The three of them were spawned in the same ugly slum — the Sink, where crime was commonplace, and all the sordid, brooding streets led to dead ends.

But these three were hard. They managed to get through the No Exit sign...

They asked him to fight again. There would be no second chance at the crown, but a friend needed help, and it might be a second chance for the woman he loved.