Travis McGee is a 21-part long crime mystery thriller saga. It is actually the brilliant writer of the author, John D. MacDonald and the tremendous response of the audience that he managed to write such a long series. Nightmare in Pink is the second chapter in the series and after the god opening to the first chapter, audience had quite high hopes with this one.
It turned out to be another stunner with a highly suspenseful story for which the author and the Travis McGee series is all about. A couple of other good novels from the author that are recommended for you are One Fearful Yellow Eye and The Deep Blue Good-By.
The story starts with the introduction of the character of Nina. She is a career woman who is living alone somewhere in Manhattan. She offers Travis McGee partnership and also the opening into the first lose thread in the gigantic swindle’s fabric. She is now leading Travis McGee over a torturous and a wild chase into a highly decadent world that belongs to the elite or the high society. It was a ruthless world of some really big money, assets and other means of wealth. It was also the mighty world of hallucinatory drugs.
According to many listeners of Nightmare in Pink, they believe that this book is even better than the first novel of the series. It is actually this novel that get audience going with the many other chapters of this series. It is indeed one of the greatest encounters that we can witness in our age and the book within holds a highly mesmerizing story that you will cherish for a long time.
I am so thrilled to be able to listen to one of the best series on audio.. I am also thrilled to have found the great author John D. MacDonald. I am finding it harder to uncover new authors and books I really love. The Travis McGee Series has me hooked. MacDonald was an amazing writer and from what I have found out online about him sounds as if he was a truly good human being. He cared deeply about the environment and so many great authors loved him as well. Sadly he passed from this world in 1986. I found a JDM page online and copied this.
THE TRAVIS McGEE SERIES
…one of the great sagas in American fiction.”
–ROBERT B. PARKER
“…what a joy that these timeless and treasured novels are available again.”
–ED McBAIN
“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
I also read Stephen King was a huge fan. Thank you so very much for keeping this ol’ gal occupied and loving every minute of JDM”s great books. I can’t wait to listen to the next in his long series. They get better with each book. With much gratitude – Mm