Short Straw | Stuart Woods | A good story although bland for thriller fans

Short Straw | Stuart Woods | A woman takes off with the money

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Short Straw

	Short Straw Stuart Woods Signet, 2007 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 36 reviews view larger image
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OUR FAVORITE LEGAL EAGLE RETURNS. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR STUART WOODS CONTINUES WHAT HE STARTED IN SANTA FE RULES: Stuart Woods delivers a compulsively readable novel of crosses and double-crosses, featuring a shrewd criminal lawyer and his shamelessly sexy wife-a true black widow.

A good story although bland for thriller fans

This review is for the Signet paperback, May 2007, 375 pages. SHORT STRAW was on the USA Today's Top 150 Best-Selling books list for eight weeks reaching the peak position of 43. Stuart Woods has 26 novels on this best-seller list.

Ed Eagle, a successful lawyer, wakes up uncharacteristically late with a hangover on the very day he is hosting an inauguration party for his new offices. By the time he sorts things out, he realizes his wife, Barbara, had drugged him to assure he slept late so she could escape to Mexico with over a million dollars of his money. Ed acts fast. With just minutes to spare, he prevents Barbara from cleaning out his brokerage accounts too.

Ed sends a private detective to Mexico to find his wife, which he does quickly, but Barbara shoots him. So Ed sends another PI to rescue the first and find his wife. The plot continues with the two private detectives chasing Barbara around Mexico. Meanwhile, Ed discovers Barbara has a contract out on him so she can get all his assets and collect on his life insurance.

Although SHORT STRAW is listed as an action thriller, it is not the over-the-top, nail-biting, super-hero type. The plot is believable, the characters plausible and everyone makes mistakes. Although many scenes happen in Mexico, the settings are either imaginary or unremarkable. It's a good story, but bland for thriller fans.

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A woman takes off with the money

This is entertaining light reading with a somewhat unlikely, but interesting, cast of characters. Ed Eagle, attorney in Sante Fe, wakes up one morning and finds his wife gone along with all the money in their personal bank account and the business bank account (things like that do happen in real life). Ed seems mainly interested in getting the money back and getting a divorce. His love for the woman is lost very quickly, and he just as quickly finds a new woman. It's hard to have much sympathy for any of the characters in the novel, but the plot moves along as you read on to see what happens next.

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Weak Ending to Fun Read

Picked up this paperback in the airport. Fun read for flight time. Had never read S. Woods before...enjoyed plot twists - was so anticipating a clever ending. Didn't happen.

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