I'm surprised I stuck this one out to the expected finish. Not a very good story at all. Unnecessarily vulgar and ridiculous plot make for a bad read. ( )

A quick easy read. Holly Barker on a forced R&R returns home to her place in Florida and get involved in the investigation of a serial rapist and murderer. She herself is attacked but a couple passing by chased away the murderer. Taken to the E.R. she meets a doctor who becomes her new love interest. ( )

Typical Stuart Woods - murder and sex abounding, but this time with just Holly Barker, who not surprisingly finds a new love and an old adversary (not one and the same this time). And even though I figured out who the killer was before the end, I got the feeling that Woods wanted it that way and it was and wasn't a surprise.

An easy and compelling read - as always. ( )