Dark Harbor (Stone Barrington Novels)
by Stuart Woods
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Author: Stuart WoodsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-11
ISBN: 039915342X
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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Book Review: Was the editor asleep? SPOILERS
Summary: 1 Stars
Outstanding in its way: a festival of plot holes, unexplained digressions, inexplicable rushing this way and that. A tiny selection:
1. Most incredibly dumb lapse of memory
Say you flew to Maine to find a missing person, bringing her dog, a trained search dog, with you. Wouldn't you put that dog on her trail immediately on arriving at the house where she was last seen? Not the dopes in this book: though at least four of them know the dog is a trained tracker, at least a day passes before someone cries, "Hey! We could use the dog to track her missing owner!"
2. Least used high-tech information
Say you got access to special imagery from the CIA that would help you find this missing person. As soon as the information came in, wouldn't you hunker down over it? It is plain to the reader that, given the size and population of the island that someone familiar with the area could find the missing person in under 30 minutes. Instead, the characters drift off to pursue other, unsubstantiated leads. When someone else finally looks at the image, they notice something else rather than the nearby anomaly that indicates the missing person. They do notice this after the missing person is safe.
3. Would you renew this pilot's license?
In a hurry, he not only skips the preflight check, he knowingly overloads his plane. (Aside: with 6 people in a 6-passenger plane, with no luggage, and partially full fuel tanks, it is hard to know why the plane can't handle this load, but we'll take the pilot's word that this plane will barely able to make it into the air.) Wouldn't you say, "You and you- STAY HERE!" No, he labors into the air, almost hitting a house and sailboat masts.
To stop the bad guys from escaping, he lands on a runway directly towards their plane which is taking off, stopping 3 feet from their propeller. Remember, he has 5 passengers with him, none of whom has any need to be there.
4. Worst parody of the dumb local cop
What has Woods been up to on Nantucket? This can only be his revenge against a cop who caught him doing something naughty.
5. Grotesque sex scenes and relationship philosophies
Ouch!! So bad!!!
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