[Paine in the Neck]

Try John D MacDonald's Travis McGee novels.

Or, for that matter, any by our own FReeper Travis McGee, aka Matthew Bracken.

[Swordmaker]

Try John D MacDonald's Travis McGee novels.

Did you know that John D. MacDonald wrote some SciFi novels? One that was particularly fun was "The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything."

[Hootowl]

A search on my Nook doesn’t turn up anything by Matthew Bracken.