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Short Straw

#2 in series

by Stuart Woods
Michael Kramer
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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 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.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Ed Eagle

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 6, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307876386
      • File size: 196696 KB
      • Duration: 06:49:46

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 14, 2006
      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.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      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. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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