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Introduction
i was born and raised near Bahia Mar, the Fort
Lauderdale yacht basin where Travis McGee moored
his poker-prize houseboat the Busted Flush.
Slip F-18, as every true fan of John D. MacDonald
knows.
Here roamed one of American fiction's most pop-
ular recurring knights—McGee, knockabout re-
triever of lost fortunes, saver of spiraling souls;
McGee of the deep-water tan, scarred knuckles, and
untender mercies.
Rugged and sentimental, fearless and flawed, he
was everything a connoisseur of private-eye capers
could want. "Wary of all earnestness/ is how McGee
described himself— although he made exceptions
when it came to his love life.
Perhaps he'd have been an equally appealing char-
acter had MacDonald consigned him to Manhattan,
Chicago, London, or Marrakesh. But McGee lived on
a boat, and there's no better place for one of those
than Fort Lauderdale.
Today South Florida is a prime destination for