{"id":4688,"date":"2008-11-28T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:50:54","slug":"book-report-the-lonely-silver-rain-by-john-d-macdonald-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/28\/book-report-the-lonely-silver-rain-by-john-d-macdonald-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Lonely Silver Rain by John D. MacDonald (1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book, the last in the Travis McGee series, represents the most existentially maudlin entry in the series.  Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that; I rather like the wistful tone taken in some of the books, but this one hammers it pretty hard.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty pedestrian plot as far as McGee novels go.  Hired by a rich man to find his stolen yacht, McGee finds it with the bodies of two American teenagers and a daughter of a Peruvian diplomat\/drug trafficker aboard.  Suddenly, people connected with the case begin dying, and McGee has to survive long enough to figure out if it&#8217;s to cover up for the crime or as revenge for the crime that he&#8217;s being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read this book before, and as I purchased this latest copy of it, I misremembered which one this was.  I thought it was the one where his wife died, but that&#8217;s earlier in the set and probably not as melancholy.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0449224856&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book, the last in the Travis McGee series, represents the most existentially maudlin entry in the series. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that; I rather like the wistful tone taken in some of the books, but this one hammers it pretty hard. It&#8217;s a pretty pedestrian plot as far as McGee novels go. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5522,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/5522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}