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    End of the Tiger and Other Stories: Stories

    By John D MacDonald and Dean Koontz

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    End of the Tiger and Other Stories, a classic collection of short fiction from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.
     
    As prolific a novelist as John D. MacDonald was in his time, his output as a short-story writer is simply astonishing. All told, just a fraction of the five hundred pieces he produced as a working writer were anthologized, and End of the Tiger and Other Stories is the first of just a few such collections. Although renowned primarily as a noir author, these fifteen handpicked gems showcase MacDonald’s tremendous range. Written between 1947 and 1966, during the golden age of short fiction in America, and appearing in such national magazines as Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, and Ladies’ Home Journal, these stories are a timeless testament to a writer at the top of his craft.
     
    This collection includes “Hangover,” “The Big Blue,” “The Trouble with Erica,” “Long Shot,” “Looie Follows Me,” “Blurred View,” “The Loveliest Girl in the World,” “Triangle,” “The Bear Trap,” “A Romantic Courtesy,” “The Fast Loose Money,” “The Straw Witch,” “End of the Tiger,” “The Trap of Solid Gold,” and “Afternoon of the Hero.”
     
    Features a new Introduction by Dean Koontz
     
    Praise for John D. MacDonald
     
    “The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.”—Stephen King
     
    “My favorite novelist of all time.”—Dean Koontz
     
    “To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.”—Kurt Vonnegut
     
    “A master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer . . . John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field. Talk about the best.”—Mary Higgins Clark
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateJun 11, 2013
    ISBN9780307826862
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    • 4/5
      This short story collection is more proof of what a consummate writer MacDonald was. These stories, with one exception, don't pack the punch that his novels do, but each one holds your interest throughout. It would be interesting to know in exactly what publication each appeared, but the copyrights page only lists publisher names. A couple of these are more family-oriented pieces, such as the title story. One is about fishing. More than one concerns infidelity. Of course, all the stories are about more than that. Each features MacDonald moralizing, even if it is often hidden between the lines rather than explicit as in the novels. The protagonists are often not likable. In short, if you like his novels, you should enjoy this book. It is a very quick read. Only one story has any real length, "The Trap of Solid Gold", which concerns a young Junior Executive's struggles to make ends meet on his salary while putting up the front that his job requires if he is to get the big payoff down the road when he may end up running the whole company. Frankly, the details about the money here made me tense just reading about them - luckily I don't have this type of problem at the moment - but it makes you pretty uncomfortable just reading about how close insolvency may be, given a few unexpected accidents. Reading this story, I wondered if it was MacDonald's way of exploring what might have been for him (he was a Harvard MBA) if he had taken a different career path. Luckily for us, he didn't.