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John D. MacDonald

    24 de julio de 1916 – 28 de diciembre de 1986

    John D. MacDonald fue un maestro de la narración de suspense, que exploró los aspectos más oscuros de la sociedad estadounidense. Su estilo se caracterizó por observaciones agudas, descripciones vívidas y una incisiva psicología de los personajes. MacDonald abordó temas de responsabilidad moral, el impacto de la tecnología y las complejidades de las relaciones humanas. Su prolífica obra fue aclamada tanto por lectores como por críticos por su poder cautivador y su intemporal examen de la naturaleza humana.

    John D. MacDonald
    Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Espionage Novels
    Travis McGee: Free Fall in Crimson
    Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign
    Made in His Image
    The Long Lavender Look
    The best of Travis McGee
    • The best of Travis McGee

      • 633 páginas
      • 23 horas de lectura

      Darker than Amber, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper, Dress her in Indigo

      The best of Travis McGee
      4,5
    • "McGee has become part of our national fabric." SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER A lovely young girl steps in front of Travis McGee's headlights. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. As he's limping along the deserted road, someone in an old truck takes a few shots at him. And, when he goes to the local sheriff to complain, the intrepid Travis McGee finds himself arrested and charged with murder. And he can't help but ask himself, is this what they call southern hospitality...?

      The Long Lavender Look
      4,4
    • Made in His Image

      • 324 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Challenging conventional beliefs, this book explores the Bible's teachings on gender equality and the role of women in ministry. It delves into interpretations and perspectives that may reshape readers' understanding of scriptural texts, encouraging a reevaluation of traditional views. Through thoughtful analysis, it aims to empower women and promote a more inclusive interpretation of religious teachings regarding their involvement in spiritual leadership.

      Made in His Image
      5,0
    • Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign

      • 208 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Highly illustrated history of the Italian Front during the Great War with over 130 rare archive photographs of the campaign and the battlefields.

      Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign
      4,2
    • Travis McGee: Free Fall in Crimson

      A Travis McGee Novel

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      McGee tracks killers who brutally murder an ailing millionaire. He renews unfinished adventure with Hollywood actress who leads him into a nasty nest of murderers involving a motorcycle gang, porn movies, and mad balloonists. And Mcgee relearns old lesson. Only close to the edge of death does he feel completely alive.

      Travis McGee: Free Fall in Crimson
      4,2
    • Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Espionage Novels

      Complete & Unabridged

      • 515 páginas
      • 19 horas de lectura

      Novels by Doyle, Maugham, Charteris, MacDonald, Gardner, Woolrick, and Fleming deal with spies and secret agents in World Wars I and II and the cold war

      Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Espionage Novels
      4,0
    • Travis McGee: The Green Ripper

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Beautiful girls always grace the Florida beaches, strolling, sailing, relaxing at the many parties on Travis McGee's houseboat, The Busted Flush. McGee was too smart--and had been around too long--for many of them to touch his heart. Now, however, there was Gretel. She had discovered the key to McGee--to all of him--and now he had something to hope for. Then, terribly, unexpectedly, she was dead. From a mysterious illness, or so they said. But McGee knew the truth, that Gretel had been murdered. And now he was out for blood...

      Travis McGee: The Green Ripper
      4,1
    • Dress Her in Indigo

      • 176 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      "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, Jr. A wealthy old man laid up in the hospital is desperate to understand the last months of his daughter's life before she was killed in a car crash in Mexico. It was puzzling. She'd cleaned out her considerable bank account, left Miami and hadn't been heard from again. Travis McGee ventures into the steep hills and strange backwoods of Oaxaca through a bizarre world of dropouts, drug freaks, and kinky rich people--and begins to suspect the beautiful girl's death was no accident....

      Dress Her in Indigo
      4,1
    • "Travis McGee is back in action and he is in fine, fine form....What a treat. It is John D. MacDonald's 21st Travies McGee book and, without reservaton, his best."THE SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE Searching for a wealthy friend's yacht, Travis McGee puts himself square in the center of the international cocaine trade, and finds himself the target of some of the most ruthless villains he's ever met. Contemplating his own mortality for the first time, Travis McGee discovers amid all the danger the astonishing surprise behind the cat-shaped pipe cleaners someone is leaving at his door. This is vintage McGee in a novel that confirms John D. MacDonald's reputation as one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

      The Lonely Silver Rain
      4,0