One Fearful Yellow Eye (A Travis McGee Novel)
by John D. MacDonald
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Author: John D. MacDonaldEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10-26
ISBN: 0449224589
Number of pages: 324
Publisher: Fawcett Crest
Book Reviews of One Fearful Yellow Eye (A Travis McGee Novel)
Book Review: Flawed but displays a number of strengths.
Summary: 4 Stars
One Fearful Yellow Eye is installment number eight in John D. MacDonald's highly successful Travis McGee series. It's interesting to note that the first eight entries were all published within a very narrow time frame, between 1964 and 1966. Though somewhat flawed, this book like its seven predecessors displays a number of strengths.
John D. MacDonald was a talented novelist and that talent is evident in One Fearful Yellow Eye. The brand of prose he uses is both original and highly evocative. The dialogue he writes for his characters is authentic sounding and the characters themselves often quite believable.
Readers familiar with Travis McGee know he is not shy when it comes to expressing his opinion on any number of topics. Many times these opinions are rather exasperating and become annoying when MacDonald insists on laying it on too thick. Consider this Travis McGee gem found near the end of chapter 4 in One Fearful Yellow Eye:
"......the creative work of the homosexuals tends to be so glossy and clever and glib that it has a curious shallowness about it, as though the inability to share the most common human experience of all makes it all surface and no guts..."
Did John D. MacDonald himself really believe such claptrap? I for one would be quite interested in finding out whether MacDonald held such patently false and offensive beliefs or whether he purposely incorporated that kind of flawed thinking into McGee's persona.
In any event, One Fearful Yellow Eye takes place mostly in and around Chicago, a city Travis McGee seems to hate with a passion. He allows that there's a pretty good pipe shop across from the old Palmer House. But other than that, Chicago is a complete blot on the North American continent. He has been summoned there by an old lover, Gloria Geis, who is now the grieving widow of a prominent neurosurgeon. It seems that when Dr. Geis died after an extended illness, $600,000 representing the bulk of his estate came up missing. As McGee attempts to find out where the money went, he uncovers a sordid and overly convoluted saga of blackmail and twisted familial relationships. The kind of story you might expect Ross Macdonald to write.
The novel ends on a rather bizarre, shocking note. Some may find the ending far fetched but there is a certain internal logic to it. With a little more attention to the finer points of plot development, One Fearful Yellow Eye could have been one of the most sensational detective novels ever written.
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