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Author: Stuart Woods
Narrator: Tony Roberts
Unabridged: 11 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/17/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Action & Adventure, Suspense & Thriller, Crime
Author: Stuart Woods
Narrator: Tony Roberts
Unabridged: 11 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/17/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Action & Adventure, Suspense & Thriller, Crime
The American novelist hailing from Georgia, Stuart Woods, had a long and lustrous career in competition sailing. The interest, maybe obsession, with sailing began after he had spent time in London, then Ireland to write a novel about an old family story which he had heard as a child. He began putting together a crew for sailing competition shortly after he moved to Ireland.
It was in conjunction with a certain race, the MORCRA Azores Race and the OSTAR, Woods met with publishers to trade writing a book about his sailing experiences in return for sponsorship of the races. Golden Harp was launched in 1975, followed by Golden, Golden Apple, Golden Shamrock, Golden Delicious, and Harp.
Wood's novel, Blue Water. Green Skipper was published in 1977. His next book took a different turn and was based on his extensive travels around England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. It was entitled, A Romantic's Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and Ireland. He then followed those two non-fiction books with several series of novels featuring recurring casts of characters and also with characters and their love interests, and frequent use of the New York restaurant Elaine's as a meeting place. Woods has published a memoir, a travel book, and forty-four novels in a thirty-seven year career.
Woods is a very prolific writer. His recent work strikes me as formulaic, albeit very readable. I like the Ed Eagle books and the Holly Barker books better than the Barrington series, but that may just be me. All of these strike me as superficial compared to his earlier works, of which this is one.......more
A page-turner from start to finish. This novel is the type you truly cannot put down once you've opened it. Jesse Warden is a wrongly-convicted lawman who gets another chance at freedom by working undercover in the Idaho panhandle. In a seemingly small town he meets a larger-than-life self-appointed......more
If you've ready one Stuart Woods book, you've pretty much read them all, although this is one of the few that doesn't feature one of Woods' usual main characters. Instead, it's about Jesse Warden, an ex-DEA agent who spent years in prison for a murder he didn't do, and is offered the chance at a par......more
I thought I'd pick up one of Stuart Woods's smaller non-series books to check it out. I was very disappointed. The summary talked about a guy who gets out of prison to infiltrate a radical cult. It was less about the cult and more about the characters.......more