In John MacDonald’s “The Deep Blue Good-By” we’re introduced to Travis McGee, a “Salvage Consultant” who is described as, “that big brown loose-jointed boat bum, that pale-eyed, wire-haired girl-seeker, that slayer of small savage fish, that beach-walker, gin-drinker, quip-maker, peace-seeker, iconoclast, disbeliever, argufier, that knuckly, scar-tissued, reject from a structured…