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John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers.
MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. His best-known works include the popular and critically acclaimed Travis McGee series, and his novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear. In 1972, MacDonald was named a grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America, and he won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Mystery. Stephen King praised MacDonald as "the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." Kingsley Amis said, MacDonald "is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels?"
MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, where his father worked for Savage Arms. The family moved to Utica, New York in 1926, where his father became treasurer of the Utica branch of the Savage Arms Corporation. In 1934, MacDonald was sent to Europe for several weeks, which whetted his appetite for travel and for photography.
After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, but he dropped out during his sophomore year. MacDonald worked at menial jobs in New York City for a short time, then was admitted to Syracuse University, where he met his future wife, Dorothy Prentiss. They married in 1937, and he graduated from Syracuse the following year.
In 1939, MacDonald received an MBA from Harvard University. He was later able to make good use of his education in business and economics by incorporating elaborate business swindles into the plots several of his novels.
In 1940, MacDonald accepted a direct commission as a first lieutenant in the Army Ordnance Corps. During World War II, he served in the OSS in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. He was discharged in September 1945 as a lieutenant colonel.
MacDonald's literary career began almost by accident. In 1945, while still in the Army, he wrote a short story and mailed it to his wife. She submitted it to Esquire magazine, which rejected it. She then sent it to Story magazine, which accepted for $25, good money for that time. He learned of this just after his ship arrived in the United States.
After his discharge, MacDonald spent four months writing short stories, generating some 800,000 words and losing 20 pounds (9.1 kg) while typing 14 hours a day, seven days a week. He received hundreds of rejection slips, but finally a $40 sale to the pulp magazine Dime Detective set his career in motion. He would eventually sell nearly 500 short stories to the detective, mystery, adventure, sports, Western, and science fiction magazines. Several times, MacDonald's stories were the only ones in an issue of a magazine, but this was hidden by using pseudonyms.
MacDonald's protagonists were often intelligent and introspective men, sometimes with a hard cynical streak. Travis McGee, the "salvage consultant" and "knight-errant," was all of that. McGee made his living by recovering the loot from thefts and swindles, keeping half to finance his "retirement," which he took in pieces as he went along. He first appeared in the 1964 novel The Deep Blue Good-by and was last seen in The Lonely Silver Rain in 1985. All titles in the 21-volume series include a color, a mnemonic device which was suggested by his publisher so that when harried travelers in airports looked to buy a book, they could at once see those MacDonald titles they had not yet read.
The McGee novels feature an ever-changing array of female companions, some particularly nasty villains, exotic locales in Florida, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and appearances by a sidekick known only as "Meyer," an economist of international renown and a Ph.D. As Sherlock Holmes had his well-known address on Baker Street, McGee had his trademark lodgings on his 52-foot (16 m) houseboat, the Busted Flush, named for the poker hand that started the run of luck in which he won her. She is docked at Slip F-18, Bahia Mar marina, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
MacDonald died at age 70, on December 28, 1986, at St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from complications of an earlier heart bypass operation.
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Travis McGee series
John D. MacDonald - The Deep Blue Good-Bye (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - Nightmare In Pink (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - A Purple Place For Dying (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - The Quick Red Fox (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - A Deadly Shade Of Gold (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - Bright Orange For The Shroud (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - Darker Than Amber (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - One Fearful Yellow Eye (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - Pale Gray For Guilt (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - The Girl In The Plain Brown Wrapper (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - Dress Her In Indigo (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - The Long Lavender Look (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - A Tan And Sandy Silence (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - The Scarlet Ruse (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - The Turquoise Lament (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - The Dreadful Lemon Sky (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - The Empty Copper Sea (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - The Green Ripper (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - Free Fall In Crimson (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - Cinamon Skin (read by Michael Prichard)
John D. MacDonald - The Lonely Silver Rain (read by Michael Prichard)
Other
John D. MacDonald - Condominium (read by Richard Ferrone)
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Travis McGee series
http://rapidgator.net/file/3ea53ea3225dd836df2a84a6ee1f57d4/The_Deep_Blue_Good_Bye.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d62f05eb1f0be9fc8d10959adfd0f908/Nightmare_In_Pink.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/54bec816fd80dbffeb9494bc5222a7c9/A_Purple_Place_For_Dying.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3001bd7b49f447f4e5f1c133d01c540a/The_Quick_Red_Fox.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8bf3a82e1af2524bf74eebbfbf07f46e/A_Deadly_Shade_Of_Gold.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f4f6a070540d530b5325e78dd483a40b/Bright_Orange_For_The_Shroud.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/454b80b39c5fcf1e58efe0e9dfdd1572/Darker_Than_Amber.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8863a679d362b69542590bd76633abc0/One_Fearful_Yellow_Eye.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7b46e9abc2a4f7e471ec02afba0cfedc/Pale_Gray_For_Guilt.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/464f352eb5b503b398e5667833f2ccd0/The_Girl_In_The_Plain_Brown_Wrapper.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0073182b7b197399793e3f6cc35fc23a/Dress_Her_In_Indigo.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/02aaef2cb02a1eff21c56cbb169bb36e/The_Long_Lavender_Look.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/469d267fc251c0a1b65fa6f0492965b6/A_Tan_And_Sandy_Silence.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a90c29bb98c52d91268cceb4191bba7e/The_Scarlet_Ruse.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/40d3cb96d1207e6e0f10d46dd3fe24ec/The_Turquoise_Lament.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7cd943a15a015d942dca3f7e2d0b53bd/The_Dreadful_Lemon_Sky.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7bce39d82a58c0e249242e3b6846c78f/The_Empty_Copper_Sea.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e06ba8dbc41f8d165fcd46b72fd4700e/The_Green_Ripper.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/36497ec0a25845d06be9ef06a1c65e29/Free_Fall_In_Crimson.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8752619d2df889d845e1ff650d774b12/Cinamon_Skin.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/623264846c8df403761224f7967bea32/The_Lonely_Silver_Rain.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/8dd090927e0e4c3ca9c05c28e18fc22f/Condominium.rar.html |
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