Overview
"McGee has become part of our national fabric."
SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER
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...
Synopsis
In what is nearly his final adventure, Travis McGee falls deeply in love with Gretel, his live-aboard boatmate. Then Gretel is horribly and impersonally murdered.
Desperate and half-demented, McGee sets out to find the killers. The trail leads him to the Church of Apocrypha, an eerily familiar religious cult whose converts are given terrorist training.
THE GREEN RIPPER is the most brutal and suspenseful outing of McGee's career, and we find a different kind of "knight errant" emerging from its savagery.