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McGee named it Miss Agnesafter one of his elementary school teachers whose hair was the same shade. McGee's business card reads "Salvage Consultant", and most business comes by word of mouth. McGee's usual fee is half the value of the item if recovered with McGee risking expenses, and those who object to Busted Flush a seemingly high fee are reminded that getting back half of something is better than owning all of nothing. Although the missing items are usually tangible e. In several instances, he shows a marked propensity to exact revenge, usually for the ill-treatment or death of one of his few real friends. Physically, McGee is a tall, tanned, sandy-haired man with pale grey eyes. Several books hint or explicitly state that he is a U. Army [1] veteran of the Korean War. However, later books are less precise about exactly when he served. 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McGee's early life and family are deliberately left undeveloped; among the few explicit mentions of family are a memory of attending a Chicago parade with his father as a boy, and a brother with whom he planned to go into business after his military service. The brother was apparently swindled out of his savings in a scam involving a woman and a male accomplice and Busted Flush suicide; it Busted Flush strongly hinted that Travis subsequently killed the woman Busted Flush her partner. McGee's ethnicity is Irish-American; his father's first name is never given, but his mother's maiden name is given as Mary Catherine Devlin. While McGee notes in Free Fall in Crimson he has "cut a wide swath through a wall of female flesh", he is honest and cynical enough to understand what this says about himself. 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The first three books Busted Flush the Travis McGee series were published in quick succession, at the rate of one a month, a highly unusual publishing strategy. According to MacDonald, he had earlier written an introductory novel about McGee Busted Flush he burned as being unsatisfactory. A longtime resident of Sarasota's Siesta Key, MacDonald said he placed McGee on the opposite side of the state to protect his privacy in case the series became popular.

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