Travis McGee

Was this a new man`s first meeting with Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, or The Great Gatsby? No, what I had come upon was Nightmare in Pink, a forty cent Fawcett Gold Medal paperback whose pink cover sported a presumably naked woman hidden behind a discretely angled leg and a study of the hero, a rough-and-ready sort of guy described by the blurb as a "Soldier of fortune, thinking man`s Robin Hood, a man who works just this position of the law to do a living stealing from thieves.