基本信息出版社：Signet
页码：400 页
出版日期：2007年05月
ISBN：0451220846
条形码：9780451220844
版本：Reprint
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Ed Eagle Novel
外文书名：短麦杆
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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.
作者简介 Stuart Woods is the author of thirty-two novels. An avid sailor and pilot, he lives in New York City, Florida, and Maine. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly 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.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From AudioFile 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. From Booklist Santa Fe defense lawyer Ed Eagle is the epitome of worldly success. He presides over a highly successful practice, which is moving into showcase quarters overlooking Santa Fe's Governor's Palace. He loves his work. He loves his wife. But, when he wakes up on the morning of his fiftieth birthday, he discovers his wife has left him and taken him for a cool million. The second shock Eagle receives is news that a local lawyer has blown his brains out in the courthouse, after murdering his wife and children. The plot races off in two directions: with two edgy characters, an ex-LAPD detective and an Apache Indian tracker, whom Eagle hires to find his wife in Mexico; and with Eagle's efforts to clear a man wrongly charged, he believes, with a triple homicide. Woods keeps the wattage high as the two plots intersect, and Eagle finds himself more and more entangled in a deadly criminal scheme. The homicidal desperation of Eagle's wife and the dodginess of the men he sends after her keep the surprises coming. Woods first introduced Eagle in 1992, in Santa Fe Rules. He was then, and still is, a fascinatingly flawed character. Connie Fletcher Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Los Angeles Daily News A roller-coaster ride of breathtaking speed, sharp, totally unexpected turns and unflagging suspense. Review A roller-coaster ride of breathtaking speed, sharp, totally unexpected turns and unflagging suspense. (Los Angeles Daily News)
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
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.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From AudioFile
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.
From Booklist
Santa Fe defense lawyer Ed Eagle is the epitome of worldly success. He presides over a highly successful practice, which is moving into showcase quarters overlooking Santa Fe's Governor's Palace. He loves his work. He loves his wife. But, when he wakes up on the morning of his fiftieth birthday, he discovers his wife has left him and taken him for a cool million. The second shock Eagle receives is news that a local lawyer has blown his brains out in the courthouse, after murdering his wife and children. The plot races off in two directions: with two edgy characters, an ex-LAPD detective and an Apache Indian tracker, whom Eagle hires to find his wife in Mexico; and with Eagle's efforts to clear a man wrongly charged, he believes, with a triple homicide. Woods keeps the wattage high as the two plots intersect, and Eagle finds himself more and more entangled in a deadly criminal scheme. The homicidal desperation of Eagle's wife and the dodginess of the men he sends after her keep the surprises coming. Woods first introduced Eagle in 1992, in Santa Fe Rules. He was then, and still is, a fascinatingly flawed character. Connie Fletcher
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Los Angeles Daily News
A roller-coaster ride of breathtaking speed, sharp, totally unexpected turns and unflagging suspense.
Review
A roller-coaster ride of breathtaking speed, sharp, totally unexpected turns and unflagging suspense. (Los Angeles Daily News)