Gloy Doyle had been one of the broken birds. Travis McGee had taken her aboard The Busted Flush, patched her up, and turned her loose to make another try at life. Now whe was calling for help again. Someone had very quietly, very skillfully, extracted six hundred thousand dollars from her husband during the last painful year of his life. Blackmail? Obviously. But the how and the why baffled him.

(Key Words: John D. MacDonald, Crime, Blackmail, Travis McGee, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery).