My bus driver loaned me this book because of a polite and surfacy inquiry I'd made into the MacDonald novel he was reading, and I wouldn't have even started it had it not been for the Vonnegut blurb on the back, which touted MacDonald's storytelling ability. And, not surprisingly, Vonnegut was right. This is a fun, tight little crime fiction novel starring one Travis McGee, who is apparently the star of a series of MacDonald's books. The pace and characters reminded me very much of Elmore Leonard's fiction, which I adore. Other than some of the unnecessarily sexist descriptions of women (it was written about fifty years ago, which is no excuse but gives it context), it was a really fun read.