“As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me.” — Dean Koontz Travis McGee’s old football buddy Tush Bannon is resisting pressure to sell off his floundering motel and marina to a group of influential movers and shakers. Then he’s found dead. For a big man, Tush was a pussycat: devoted to his wife and three kids and always optimistic about his business — even when things were at their worst. So although his death is ruled a suicide, McGee suspects murder . . . and a vile conspiracy. “Travis McGee is the last of the great knights-errant: honorable, sensual, skillful, and tough.” — Donald Westlake Tush Bannon was in the wrong spot at the wrong time.