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Short Straw (Paperback)

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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Signet (MM); 1 edition (May 1 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451220846
ISBN-13: 978-0451220844
Product Dimensions: 19 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 227 g

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At the start of this taut tale of a very bad woman out to fleece a very good man from bestseller Woods, Santa Fe, N.Mex., lawyer Ed Eagle wakes up one morning with a terrible hangover and a missing wife. After a few phone calls, it turns out that not only has his wife, Barbara, disappeared, she's in the process of taking $5 million of his money with her. Ed, who met Barbara in an earlier Woods novel, Santa Fe Rules (1992), knew she was a shady character, but she was also beautiful and fabulous in bed so he married her. He hires a couple of PIs to find her, but every time they catch up with the unrepentant Barbara, she shakes them off and gets away. She's the most compelling character in the book, willing to go to any lengths, including murder, to keep the money. Scarcely an excess word gets in the way of the briskly moving plot. Author tour. (Oct.)
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Stuart Woods just keeps getting better. SHORT STRAW revisits Native American lawyer Ed Eagle, now having trouble with his wife. She has drained his bank account and taken off to Mexico. Eagle is not going to cry in his beer; he sends two trusted investigators to get her back--and that's just the first chapter. Michael Kramer brings all his skills as an actor to bear performing the roles, women as well as men. It's a straightforward story, nice and linear, but loaded with innuendo that Kramer handles beautifully. Listeners won't be able to stop until all the mysteries are solved. This book is satisfying in every sense of the word. More Ed Eagle! M.S. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars ENTERTAINMENT AND EXCITEMENT TO THE MAX, Oct 13 2006

By	Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Short Straw (Hardcover)

Let's face it, even a guy as sharp as top Santa Fe attorney Ed Eagle can make a mistake. He did, and it was a doozie, perhaps a costly doozie. His error was in marrying and trusting Barbara.

It is his fiftieth birthday, and one of the biggest days in his life - he's about to open new offices - he'd worked for this day for 25 years. However, oddly enough, he had overslept which was not at all like him. He wonders why Barbara hadn't awakened him, and finds the answer to that question in her bathroom - an empty bottle of Ambien (sleeping pills). He didn't take them, but she might have laced his dinner wine with them.

She's nowhere to be found, so he heads for his new offices and the noon opening reception. He's greeted with a fax which his secretary, Betty, found in the fax machine. It reads, "This is to confirm the wire transfer of $930,000 from your firm account and $170,000 from your personal account to an account in the Cayman Islands." Barbara had wiped him out.

Ed bared his teeth, `Look in my mouth," he said to Betty. "Do I still have my eyeteeth?"

"Figuratively speaking," Betty replied, "no."

And so begins the 33rd novel by bestselling author Stuart Woods, and marks the return of tough, savvy six-foot-seven-inch Ed Eagle. Our hero will need all the smarts and skill he has to stay afloat and alive.

The search for Barbara and his money is on - Ed hires a pair of private investigators to track her but she always manages to stay beyond their grasp. Cupie, an ex Los Angeles Police Detective can't land her. Will Vittorio, an Apache, best her?

A sub plot involves Ed's successful defense of an accused murder, Joe Big Bear which eventually ties in nicely with Cupie's and Vittorio's efforts to get Barbara to sign some blank pieces of paper which would eventually return Ed's cash.

Short Straw is stay-up-all-night-reading - it's entertainment and excitement to the max. Enjoy!

- Gail Cooke

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