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  <title><![CDATA[The Green Ripper (Travis McGee Mysteries (Paperback))]]></title>
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  <default_description>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.  &lt;P&gt;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.  &lt;P&gt;THE GREEN RIPPER is the most brutal and suspenseful outing of McGee's career, and we find a different kind of &quot;knight errant&quot; emerging from its savagery.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[John D. MacDonald]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Taking off from the end of The &quot;Empty Copper Sea&quot;, the &quot;Green Ripper&quot; marked what I consider the significant high point of the series.  Certainly Travis is forced to endure emotional torment beyond what most of us would ever want, but he comes out of it with a belligerant intensi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21635089">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[McGee has decided that maybe, at last, he's found the Real Thing with Gretel, but then she's ruthlessly murdered -- worse, he and Meyer discover this is just one of a long series of killings involved with the plans of anarchistic revolutionaries hiding behind the mask of a religious cult, the Church...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52762587">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The entire Travis McGee series is excellent.  This is one of the more brutal of the stories, and one of the best.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written in the late Seventies it has interesting things to say today about Governmental power and terrorism. <br/>Travis McGee is the hero. He is a salvage man. His girlfriend is murdered in a way that makes it look like she was stung and got sick. On the same day her boss had a fake heart attack. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41464665">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[McGee infiltrates a homegrown religious terrorist organization responsible for the love of his life's death.  A little too Rambo towards the end, but a decent airport read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simple, mindless fun]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow John MacDonald rules, as does Travis Kickass McGee. But this one was one of his last McGee stories, and he's all geriatric and complaining about his creaky bones.  Picture your grandfather kicking ass. Also, he maybe was told by an editor not to be as erudite- he explains big words and doesn't g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18734682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Travis sees more death and destruction, comes within inches of his life and still leaves the hero of the book.  Best book of the series.]]></body>
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