Genre: Book
Grade: A
Notable People: John D. MacDonald
Title: The Quick Red Fox
Review: Last days of getting ready to head back to the mountains for summer/fall…and out of reading material while packing for days…so hit the archives and found an old hardcover edition of this 1964 entry in the legendary Travis McGee series. A revelation!. Every time I read Johnny Mac, I am reminded of how magnificent a writer he was. McGee is the quintessential everyman hero and he gets ingot surreal misadventures in his quest to maintain his wandering sailing lifestyle aboard the fabled “Busted Flush”….and this one is not only a riveting story (uncharacteristically finding McGee schlepping around the country-northern California coast, Colorado skiing, Phoenix)…but it may feature McGee at his most ruminating, philosophical self- pondering the ruining of the environment, questing for the elusive “real love” thing, and considering the meaning of life (he has four ages on what McGee believes to be the ”Freud-Fraud”….Wow…). If you’ve never tried McGee, go to the library or buy a used a paperback and start with this one. What a character!