| Dark-haired and delicately built, she was a sweetly wanton
career girl, living alone in a Manhattan walk-up. Her name was Nina and—in
addition to companionship—she offered Travis McGee the first clue, the
first loose thread in the whole elaborate fabric of a swindle so gigantic
that it took a small army of lawyers and financiers to keep it secret.
McGee, that amiable skeptic, that freelance knight in slightly tarnished
armor, set out on a wild and tortuous chase that takes him into the
decadent world of Café Society, the ruthless world of the really big
money and the weird and terrifying world of hallucinatory drugs… |
