A Tan and Sandy Silence

The 13th installment in MacDonald's suspense series about Florida beach bum extraordinaire Travis McGee. McGee flies down to Grenada in aid of a female (naturally) friend and ends up learning some uncomfortable truths about himself. This one is redolent with the long contemplative inner monologues

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that MacDonald regularly uses to shine a light on the cultural and sexual mores of the time, but it's notably short on humor and long on gruesome and graphic violence that even my hard-bitten self found a bit over the top. The longer the series goes on, the less content McGee seems to be at the end of each book, even after the bad guys are vanquished. If he were a real person, I would worry about his mental health.

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