Santa Fe Dead (Ed Eagle Novel) by Stuart Woods Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Santa Fe Dead (Ed Eagle Novel)
Book Review: Fast delivery
Summary: 5 Stars
The book was in an excellent condition and it was delivered fast. Thank you.Book Review: Great Read
Summary: 5 Stars
This is yet another great read from Woods. Like the others, it holds ones interest and the suspence on the next page is looming.Book Review: Light entertainment, very light entertainment
Summary: 3 Stars
Barbara Eagle (exwife of lawyer Ed Eagle) on trial for murder, escapes while the jury is deliberating, but is found not guilty. Apparently independently, actress Susanna Wilde (Ed's girlfriend) shoots her ex-husband and movie producer Donald Wells (Ed's client) hires his stuntman Jack Cato to kill his (Donald's) rich wife and her child. Barbara marries billionaire Walter Keeler, who is killed in an auto accident. Joe Wylan (Walter's lawyer) alters Walter's will after learning from Ed that Barbara is a psychopath. Through her movie-producer boyfriend Jimmy Long, Barbara (now Keeler) hires Jack Cato to kill Susanna Wilde in revenge, but Susanna survives. That's the setup, albeit it takes up half of the novel. Convolutions continue to proliferate.
Confused yet? And those are only the major characters. Over a dozen supporting characters include numerous policemen and policewomen, private detectives, the district attorney, the various lawyers' partners/assistants, boyfriends, girlfriends, and many others. Perhaps a dozen other characters in back-stories are mentioned.
Unfortunately, this "cast of thousands" does not contain a single "human being" (to use terminology from a different Stuart Woods novel), that is, I found none of them sympathetic or appealing. Feel free to cheer for your choice of the bad guys--there is no chance of anyone you've grown fond of getting hurt. Sure, there are loose ends, but who cares?
The novel strictly light-weight, but very entertaining. A good book for those moments in life when you don't need any more stress---not even the stress of 3-hour emotional commitment to a fictional character.
Book Review: Not a Clean Read
Summary: 1 Stars
A friend recommended this book to me... the first I've read by this author. I was looking for a good mystery. Unfortunately, this book does not work the brain at all. What a lazy, unimaginative writer, to take such a contrived plot, give the characters unlimited money to do whatever far-fetched thing you want, and throw in some sex scenes to interest the voyeurists... blah! Those of you who like this book must not realize that there are great writers out there with creative, imaginative stories to tell. No thank you, I will not be reading any of Stuart Woods' other books.Book Review: Readable, if moronic
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the first Stuart Woods book I've experienced. It features unlikeable characters in ridiculous situations. Most of the characters are millionaires, and a few are actual billionaires. Almost everyone has his own plane and flies from here to there like Captain Skyhawk.
Ed Eagle is the "hero" I guess - and apparently is the "star" of other Woods novels. He's an attorney who does pretty much nothing but talk on the phone and fly in his plane. The action is mostly addressed by a small army of local police and private detectives, many with similar names - it is very tricky to tell them apart. None of them fly their own planes, yet move from place to place as if they did. Also, this book has an astronomical body count, including one early on that has nothing to do with anything else in the book, and was probably supposed to be edited out.
In spite of the incredible silliness of this book, I plowed through it and more or less enjoyed it, like one would a bad 80's scifi flick. Dumb, but entertaining and unintentionally funny.
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