“The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.” — Jonathan Kellerman He was rich, mean, and slowly succumbing to cancer — until someone hastened the inevitable by beating him to death at a Florida truck stop. Now Ellis Esterland’s son wants Travis McGee to find out who killed his estranged father. The why seems obvious: Esterland’s multimillion-dollar estate. “John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field.” — Mary Higgins Clark Though he had been reassured that he would receive a substantial inheritance, Ron Esterland was disowned by his wealthy father years ago. But upon dear old Dad’s conveniently timed murder, the family fortune winds up in the hands of Ellis’s ex-wife instead.
