MAC TRAVIS
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| Full Name: |
Mac Travis |
| Nationality: |
American |
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None |
| Occupation |
Other - Commercial Diver |
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| Creator: |
Steven Becker
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| Time Span: |
2013 - 2019 |
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ABOUT THE SERIES
Mac Travis is a commercial diver.
His past is a bit of a mystery to most people, even the government folks with the power to do some substantial digging into his past. In one early adventure, his history was summed up by one investigator as "Name's Travis, Mac Travis. Been down there for years living off the land in typical Keys fashion. Strong minded guy. ... This guy is invisible. I've had a PI run down the basic stuff on him, and the numbers don't add up. He's pulling in a marginal income fishing and doing commercial dive work, but it doesn't add up. He pays his taxes, but has no bank accounts. He paid cash for his house and boat. That's probably five hundred thousand for the house and another two for the boat."
Travis has a secret history and he likes it that way. He also likes being left alone to live his quiet life, well, quietly. Unfortunately the world does not seem too obliging in that regard and when then it finds that when Travis is pushed, he tends to push back a bit harder.
Now making his home in the Florida Keys, Travis hails from Galveston, Texas, where he learned to work beneath the surface with his father, becoming not only a certified diver but also certified in underwater welding and concrete pouring and other useful trades, which is what eventually took him to Florida and the start of a new life.
Helping Travis in his work and his other extracurricular activities is Trufante, a 6'5" Cajun who also found his way down the thousand miles of coastline until he, too, lives and breaths the Key air. Trufante is an interesting character because he seems to find more ways to get Travis involved in things than Travis, a sane man, should allow.
BOOKS
| Number of Books: | 9 |
| First Appearance: | 2013 |
| Last Appearance: | 2019 |
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Wood's Relic
Written by Steven Becker
Copyright: 2014
A prequel that describes the early days of Mac Travis in the Keys, showing how he arrives, met Wood and went to work for him, and got into lots of trouble after finding a relic while working on replacing a bridge, an item that has lots of people interested for not-so-good reasons. And then there is Travis' rather nutsy ex-girl friend who tracks him down.
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Wood's Reef
Written by Steven Becker
Copyright: 2013
Mac Travis was enjoying life and partaking of one of his favorite pastimes, scuba diving, when he found off the coast of Florida a discarded nuke. It is not long before word gets out and a terrorist learns that Travis knows the location and wants it. Also, a Presidential candidate who knows his past involvement with it will ruin his election chance wants to kill the story - literally.
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Wood's Wall
Written by Steven Becker
Copyright: 2014
Three fishermen off the Florida Keys hook a "square grouper", a container of drugs, by accident. They find in with the drugs an explosive that could devastate the entire region. When Mac Travis brings him part of the package, Travis finds himself up to his neck in trouble.
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Wood's Wreck
Written by Steven Becker
Copyright: 2015
Mac Travis' deckhand on his boat has been working with a girlfriend to illegally use his vessel to poach lobster. As the owner, Travis is implicated and both the boat and his house are confiscated. Trying to get them back, he discovers a connection with a money laundering scheme and the CIA's plan to smuggle baseball players out of Cuba.
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Wood's Harbor
Written by Steven Becker
Copyright: 2015
Mac Travis is reaching the bottom and needs something to help get his life back in order. What he and his deckmate, Trufante, do not need, though, is getting in the middle of a scheme to mess up the growing U.S.-Cuba rapproachment.
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Wood's Reach
Written by Steven Becker
Copyright: 2016
In dire need of money, Mac Travis reluctantly agrees to do business with a very shady antiquities dealer and the treasure hunt he is put on get deadly really fact.
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Wood's Revenge
Written by Steven Becker
Copyright: 2017
The heavy storm had brought a lot of debris to his doorstep but it was the large amount of dead fish that concerned Mac Travis and made him investigate what could have killed so many. This leads to a testing site in Florida Bay and a murder and eventually a plan that could destroy the Everglades all in the name of Big Sugar.
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Wood's Betrayal
Written by Steven Becker
Copyright: 2017
Mac Travis did not want to go up against someone as powerful as the shipping executive with all his contacts and his money and his greed but to protect those he and his deckmate loved, they had no choice.
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Wood's Tempest
Written by Steven Becker
Copyright: 2018
The death of a famous treasure hunter brings to Mac Travis a treasure trove of information about dozens of lost wrecks the man had been researching. Suddenly he has to find one of them in the huge amount that might save those he is closest to.
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Wood's Fury
Written by Steven Becker
Copyright: 2019
His latest attempt to be left alone was destroyed when Mac Travis and his deckmate found a turtle tied to fifty kilos of cocaine floating in the Gulf Stream. They just wanted to rescue the animal but no good deed as the saying goes.
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