One Fearful Yellow Eye

Publisher Marketing: John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller. - Stephen King It only takes one word to get Travis McGee to leave the sunny deck of his houseboat in Ft. Lauderdale for the gray cold of Chicago. The word is help, and it s uttered by Glory Geis, an old girlfriend of McGee s and the pretty young widow of world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Fortner Geis. The trouble is, the good doctor converted his considerable estate into cash before he died. But where he stashed it, no one knows. There s only one thing as good as reading a John D. MacDonald novel: reading it again. John Saul Although everyone from the IRS to Dr. Geis greedy grown children suspects that Glory is hiding the lost fortune, she hasn t a clue as to its whereabouts. To prove her innocence, she must find the money and the culprits who stole it. Enter McGee, for one of the most challenging salvages of his career. How do you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone must have done it very quietly and skillfully. While untangling the mess of Dr. Geis last days, McGee makes a startling discovery: Some folks would love nothing better than to bring down the whole family by any means necessary. But McGee is starting to actually like a few members of the Geis clan and he vows to bring the guilty to justice. The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author." Jonathan Kellerman" Review Citations: Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 634 (EAN 9780812983999, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  MacDonald, John D John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pa, and educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Harvard, where he took an MBA in 1939. After war service in the Far East he wrote hundreds of stories for the pulps and over seventy novels, including the 21 in the Travis McGee sequence. Contributor Bio:  Petkoff, Robert Robert Petkoff has won multiple "AudioFile "Earphones awards for his acclaimed narrations. He was named Best Voice of Fiction & Classics for his reading of "The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore" by Benjamin Hale. His other narration credits include "Oath of Office" by Michael Palmer, "Gangster Squad "by Paul Lieberman, and books by David Foster Wallace. Petkoff has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in theaters across America and Europe. He has worked in television and film. His theater credits include Lord Evelyn Oakleigh in the Broadway production of "Anything Goes", Perchik as part of the Tony-nomianted cast of "Fiddler on the Roof", and Hubert Humphrey in the Tony award-winning play "All the Way." He has also had numerous roles in television on shows such as "Law and Order" and "Married with Children."