The Last One Left

by John D. MacDonald

Paper Book, 1967

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Collection

Publication

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967

Description

Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Murder at sea. No survivors, no evidence, no loose ends. Only a boatload of cash left for the taking. In this explosive novel from the author of the Travis McGee series, nothing is certain�not with enough money at stake to change a dozen lives . . . or end them.   Introduction by Dean Koontz   Crissy Harkinson knows all about the cash that left the Gold Coast of Florida, headed for the Bahamas on board a pleasure boat. It came from Texas, unrecorded, intended as a bribe. Now it is Crissy�s last chance for the big score she�s been working toward for years, using her brains and her body.   Then other people get involved, including a Texas lawyer too cool to commit himself to anything or anybody, a beautiful Cuban maid who might not be as silly as she seems, and a pitifully broken girl, adrift and unconscious in a tiny boat on the giant blue river of the Gulf Stream. Turns out these are shark-infested waters. And none of them are going down without a fight.   Praise for John D. MacDonald and The Last One Left   �As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me.��Dean Koontz   �A stunning adventure.��Chicago Tribune   �John D. MacDonald created a staggering quantity of wonderful books, each rich with characterization, suspense, and an almost intoxicating sense of place.��Jonathan Kellerman.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member MM_Jones
Great writer, extremely busy novel. So many well described characters, the movie plays in your head as you read along. The rich lawyer, reassesing his life,; the has-been blond, trying for one last big score; the rent-a-ships-captian, wondering how he got old; the wounded war veteran,;the love sick
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boy and more. Each a tale within the story. Amazing
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LibraryThing member bardin
A very entertaining book, written by a master of the genre.
LibraryThing member ktp50
Great crime story, told well. Paints a picture of another place and time. Just great to read.
LibraryThing member waldhaus1
The antihero of this novel is someone the reader quickly comes to despise. Certainly McDonald's ability to display the trimmings of an age such as princess phones and 'transistorized' Japanese tape recorders is on display. Several clever plot twists and characterizations help make the story
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interesting. At some level the reader knows there will be a happy ending but it is fun to see the details McDonald uses to achieve that.
Certainly the reader is brought back to the immediate post Castro and post bday of pigs era. The reader is reminded how much different the world seemed then.
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LibraryThing member zmagic69
Unbelievably slow book takes forever for the story to develop, while there is way too much character development. The is the first book by this author that was slow and boring, which was really surprising since everything else I have read was good. The author is known for heavy character
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development but in this case it was too much, for this reader.
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LibraryThing member JBreedlove
Good book. Dense with many large paragraphs of JDM waxing philosophical and giving sometimes too much details on characters and character background. Al the pieces were there and they almost fit but there could have been a little more to some and a little less to others. not really much action
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either but it was a good look at 1960s Florida and the people who lived there. Definitely sexist and patronizing but its 1966. RK and Cisca even went to a Bond movie. You could sense Travis McGee around the corner or on the next dock down.
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Physical description

369 p.; 22 cm
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