Pale Gray for Guilt

By John D. MacDonald

Book Overview

From a beloved master of crime fiction, Pale Gray for Guilt is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. 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 even though his death is ruled a suicide, McGee suspects murder . . . and a vile conspiracy. "As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me."--Dean Koontz Tush Bannon was in the wrong spot at the wrong time. His measly plot of land just so happened to sit right in the middle of a rich parcel of five hundred riverfront acres that big-money real estate interests decided they simply must have. It didn't matter that Tush was a nice guy with a family, or that he never knew he was dealing with a criminal element. They squashed him like a bug and walked away, counting their change. But one thing they never counted on: the gentle giant had a not-so-gentle friend in Travis McGee. And now he's going to make them pay. Features a new Introduction by Lee Child

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812984005
• ISBN13: 9780812984002
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The great MacDonald

While I still find "Flash of Green" to be my favorite MacDonald book, there's something so appealing about the Travis McGee series that keeps me coming back to them. And "Pale Gray for Guilt" has such an engaging opening sequence of events, and such an array of fascinating characters, that you cannot put this mystery down. I just hope that MacDonald continues to gain in popularity, as I feel he is horribly overlooked.

An excellent early McGee

Many of Travis McGee's 1960s adventures seem a bit dated today. In his earlier incarnation, McGee was less cynical but more of a hedonist. He became a more appealing hero the more world weary he beacme. Nevertheless, "Pale Gray for Guilt" is the best of the earlier books because it has a classic McGee story that could be the plot of an old west movie. Bad guys kill the hero's friend and the hero sets out for revenge. Only with McGee, you know the revenge won't be conventional in nature.

Excellent!

Enough double-crosses and triple-crosses to fill four books. After reading this book, I re-read the last two chapters of Lonely Silver Rain. Pale Gray is simply one of the best from the master!

great !!! all of his books are the best!

i have, and have read all of his books..started late, in 1965, and love every one, from the first travis to the last....and all the others......cannot choose a favorite, cause all are # 10'