>>I know who you mean and will have to check whether he has a new one out. His style of light fiction is well done and he describes South Florida as well as anyone since John D. MacDonald. (MacDonald gets the nod because he foresaw the downfall of the old unspoiled Florida long before it was fashionable).
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>Travis McGee!! I've read them all and loved them all!
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Yeah.

I know you were pals with Tom Piper. (He brought you and Gary together, after all). You probably know that the year DevCon was in Miami he made a pilgrimage to the marina slip where the Busted Flush was immortalized in fiction. He reported that the slip number was real and he stood at the exact spot.

We've lost a lot of people in this community. I probably miss Tom more than any of them. We had a good friendship and talked on the phone often. They were the kind of calls where you realized, whoops, it's been an hour. The last time I talked to him he was on his annual pilgrimage to the Pink Palace in Honolulu. He had his eye on two nubile young German women and thought he had a good shot <g>.