

The Eagle Heist
Author: Raymond Austin
Narrator: Raymond Todd
Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/22/2005
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Author: Raymond Austin
Narrator: Raymond Todd
Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/22/2005
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Raymond Austin (The Baron DeVere-Austin of Delvin) began his career as a stunt man in Hollywood and quickly soared to fame as the director of England’s top television shows The Avengers and The Saint. He and the Baroness currently divide their time between their homes in Wiltshire, England, and Charlottesville, Virginia. The Eagle Heist is the first novel in his Beauford Sloan Mystery Series.
It suffers from the same fate as a lot of mysteries. The person solving the mystery gets lucky more than doing any real investigating.In this story not only does Beuford have several lucky breaks, the villians also manage to have many lucky breaks as well.It also seems all mysteries require some kin......more
The man behind such successful tv shows as Airwolf and Magnum P.I. decides to write a heist novel with a very tepid result. The novel is mildly engaging but the story is simplistic and clichéd, populated with cardboard characters. The writing is full of atrocious spelling and the punctuation is down......more
An armored car disappears in Washington, DC, and one of the guards body is found in the Potomac. Retired homicide detective beauford Sloan is hired by the mother of one of the guard to investigate her son's death. Other people start being murdered aand the trail leads to Europe and Algiers.......more
A bit thin and gory for my taste. Well thought out and executed plot.......more