The Empty Trap: A Novel

By John D MacDonald and Dean Koontz

The Empty Trap, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.
 
Lloyd Wescott is a big boy, and he understands that big money doesn’t smell like roses. When he’s hired to build and run the Green Oasis resort, he dosn’t know too much about the pedigree of its owner—and he doesn’t want to. He won’t ask any questions. Just as long as the place is legit and he can run it clean as a whistle. But when trouble checks in, skimming from the casino’s tills is the least of Lloyd’s concerns. The quiet elegance of the hotel lobby turns out to be crawling with contract guns. And after one look from a beautiful woman, Lloyd realizes that he’s about to get some hard answers to the questions he never asked.
 
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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Jun 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9780307827166

Reviews for The Empty Trap

[waldhaus1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Beginning in violence and terror the reader sees through the eyes of a man working with the challenge of finding himself in the middle of a great evil. He struggles to avoid becoming evil himself. He has tried to save the wife of a mob boss only to experience her being brutally murdered and barely escaping a brutal attempt on his own life. In the end he is saved by a band of Mexican Indios. After recovering he decides to go back and extract vergence. In the process he has to examine his own soul, his own nature to learn what he is capable of. A satisfying conclusion.

[andyray_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is one of the best (maybe THE best) story about a man losing himself to find himself I've read. Published when MacDonald was just beginning his masterful reign of 30 years, it still works today.