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Travis Bickle cruises this Pandemonium like an animal trying to unwind. He is an underground man for America, condemned to try to live a quiet life in enemy territory. But things won't leave him alone. Ther's no relief from the loneliness and frustration; The city never lets him...
And what a perfect cast. Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside. De Niro is the id unleashed, the man whose characters wear emotional scars like merit badges, who can contain nothing. The slow-witted ball-player of Bang the Drum Slowly, Travis of Taxi Driver...
But, they're wrong: he is a working American moralist. He hates the cheap and the shoddy; the bad values, the bad art, the bad people. His hero, Travis McGee, who hates all of it for him, hates with intelligence, an acuity, and a ruthless wit.
Travis McGee is a romantic--like everyone who remains moral today--and like all the best of American fictional detectives, he is tattered, but never lapses long into cynicism, even though his business forces into the very worst seams and sleazes of the American night. Of his own existence, McGee...
What makes Travis McGee books so very good is that MacDonald talks to the reader like an old friend--straight. He tells you what's on his mind, and you sense that if you find the conversation dull or commonplace, that is your own fault, not his.