Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0449224619, Mass Market Paperback)

While making good his promise to prevent a young girl from committing suicide, Travis McGee encounters an entirely new string of problems of his own. Attempting to salvage someone else's troubled life, McGee soon finds it is enough just to keep his own neck out of the noose! As with all of John D. MacDonald's books, THE GIRL IN THE PLAIN BROWN WRAPPER is filled with the special insights into human fears and desires that millions of readers have come to expect from him.