John D MacDonald 
The Dreadful Lemon Sky: Introduction by Lee Child 
Travis McGee, No.16

”Mac Donald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis Mc Gee” LEE CHILD
Travis Mc Gee isn’t your typical knight in shining armour. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: He’ll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
Around four in the morning, Travis Mc Gee is jarred awake by a ghost from his past: an old flame who needs a place to stash a package full of cash. He agrees to help. Two weeks later she’s dead.
Left with a hundred grand and a nagging conscience, Travis goes to a seedy little town to look into Carrie’s previous life. But what Travis finds only pushes him further into the corrupt world she was trying to escape . . .
First published in 1975, The Dreadful Lemon Sky features an introduction by Lee Child
JOHN D. MACDONALD: A GRAND MASTER CRIME WRITER
”The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller” – Stephen King
”Travis Mc Gee is my favourite fiction detective. He’s great because he has a philosophical side – he will fight a bunch of mobsters in a car park and then have a muse about life, the universe and everything” – Tony Parsons
”A dominant influence on writers crafting the continuing series character . . . I envy the generation of readers just discovering Travis Mc Gee” – Sue Grafton
”The consummate pro, a master storyteller and witty observer . . . The Travis Mc Gee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author and they retain a remarkable sense of freshness” – Jonathan Kellerman
”. . . my favorite novelist of all time” – Dean Koontz
”A master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer . . . John D. Mac Donald is a shining example for all of us in the field” – Mary Higgins Clark
”What a joy that these timeless and treasured novels are available again” – Ed Mc Bain
”There’s only one thing as good as reading a John D. Mac Donald novel: reading it again . . . He is the all-time master of the American mystery novel” – John Saul