Random House The Lonely Silver Rain (English, Electronic book tex...

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Random House

2013

<br/><b>John D. MacDonald</b> was an American novelist and short-story writer. His works include the Travis McGee series and the novel <i>The Executioners,</i> which was adapted into the film <i>Cape Fear</i>. In 1962, MacDonald was named a grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America; in 1980, he won a National Book Award. In print, he delighted in smashing the bad guys, deflating the pompous, and exposing the venal. In life, he was a truly empathic man; his friends, family, and colleagues found him to be loyal, generous, and practical. In business, he was fastidiously ethical. About being a writer, he once expressed with gleeful astonishment, &ldquo;They pay me to do this! They don&rsquo;t realize, I would pay them.&rdquo; He spent the later part of his life in Florida with his wife and son, and died in 1986.