Short Straw

It is a quick read and fast moving....enjoyable book. But, like all books by Stuart Woods, you can't write about the town in a three day visit. For example, Ed Eagle's new office is in a Santa Fe skyscraper--there are no skyscrapers in Santa Fe. That said, the chase after Ed's estranged wife is a fun read....

powerful lawyer Ed Eagle is drugged by his wife ---who also has cleaned out his acct and gone AWOL and gone to Mexico. She tries to kill him along the way and even more fun ensues. What a total bitch huh? He doesn't want her killed however! Really exciting read.

Another entertaining adventure in the crazy life of Ed Eagle. Not high literature by any means, but fun.

Not a Stone Barrington novel. This is a new series about a lawyer and his seedy clients and the shady private detectives that work for him. Starts off with his wife taking off to Mexico after emptying his bank accounts. It takes two detectives to track her down and meanwhile his court appointed client turns the tables on him after he's acquitted.

Stuart Woods always gives just what you expect out of his books. Short Straw is like the other novels by Woods. Suspenseful, but not so that you wind up feeling too tense upon reading the novel.

Quick and easy read, worth an hour or so on a sunny beach.

From the Publisher: Short Straw reintroduces Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle, who first appeared in Stuart Woods's 1992 thriller, Santa Fe Rules. In his first adventure, Ed fell in love with the seductive Barbara Kennerly, and married her-against his better judgment. Turns out that Ed should have listened to his intuition. Ed Eagle awakens the morning after his fortieth birthday to find that Barbara has vanished, and Ed's money-from his business, his bank, and his brokerage accounts-has been wired to the Cayman Islands. Barbara, it appears, had drugged his birthday wine, neatly cleaned him out and then fled to Mexico, from where she can't be extradited. And as if that weren't bad enough, when Ed arrives at work that morning he discovers that show more he's been assigned a new client who looks like nothing but trouble-Joe Big Bear, a part-time mechanic charged with a triple homicide. Ed hires two slightly shady investigators to search for his wife. But when they track Barbara down in Puerto Vallarta, they discover that Joe Big Bear may also be embroiled in Barbara's plot. Ed soon finds himself caught in a scheme that is much more far reaching-and deadly-than anyone would have expected. show less