Cinnamon Skin
Cinnamon Skin is one of several famous novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled investigator who lives on a houseboat, from a revered master of crime fiction.
A houseboat explodes in a massive white flash in the Florida Keys, killing the honeymooners on board instantaneously. Meyer, Travis McGee's greatest buddy, loses his home and everything in it, as well as his only remaining relative. Now he's looking for answers. And he and McGee want to catch them—or perish attempting it.
“To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.”—Kurt Vonnegut
Meyer might have died if Travis McGee hadn't organized a lecture tour for his friend. Meyer had already loaned the John Maynard Keynes to his newlywed niece, Norma, and her husband, Evan, in the hopes of providing them with the ideal honeymoon. Rather, tragedy. Meyer and McGee head to Mexico to seek justice when a group of Colombian terrorists claim credit for the horrible act. Alternatively, retaliation.
Meyer and McGee find many things as they cross the border: Evan's shady history, a gorgeous local called Barbara, a deadly drug gang, and perhaps even Meyer's long-lost courage. But can Meyer, who has spent his life in McGee's shadow, have what it takes to revenge the death of the one person he cares about the most?
