The Green Ripper

The Green Ripper, the nineteenth book in John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series, finds McGee at his most chauvinistic. Nonetheless, the plot is one of MacDonald’s most gripping, involving a cultish terrorist organization whose activities impact McGee personally. (The book has the distinction of being the first and last winner of the National Book Award for Mystery, a one-year award only given in 1980.)