Rent: Shoot Him If He Runs (Stone Barrington Novels)

I should have known after his last book, that this would stink also. I don't know why I keep going back to Woods, probably because I run out of things to listen to. I will not be buying any more of his books or even going to the library to get them. It is not worth it. I could not even get past the first few chapters.

This was by no means his best work but it was passable. I would rate it a solid passing C grade. I was disappointed though to see so many errors. There is a scene where Irene is in the restaurant and calls "Ginny" Holly before she found out who Ginny was. And other errors like that.

And it read more like a chapter book instead of a novel. Quick, short and in between with no real beginning or end. Perfect for a by the pool/at the beach read....

As always pure Stuart Woods and Stone Barrington. Actually as you get in to the book the title makes perfect sense. With a villian like this what else could you do but SHOOT HIM!

Well this will go down in my reading history as the book that caused me to abandon Stuart Woods forever! His arrogance in cover notes notwithstanding, he is truly overburdened with self-pride. His hat size in HIS opinion is probably a 48 (or is that his waist? from all that rich Elaine's food and too much Knob Creek?)

His work stinks these days and has for the last few of his trite books.

It us just a damn shame to find an excellent, formerly interesting protagonist like Stone Barrington in the hands of what has become a very inept writer! This one truly and literally made me puke!

Stu, hope you saved some money......

Read H.L. Wasden's review in this section. He/she says it all perfectly.

I was testy as hell after finishing this book. I am furious at myself for buying another Woods novel. Really, I should know better by now.

And that arrogant afterword always ticks me off.

I really liked this book. I've read a couple of other Stone Barrington novels and I thought this was one of the better ones. It made me want to go out and buy more. It's an easy, gripping read with a good storyline.

OK, it wasn't one of Stuart Wood's best books to come down the pike, but it wasn't one of the worst, either. Having kept up with the Stone Barrington and Holly Barker novels, I figured I'd give this latest one a try. Knowing all about the search for rogue ex-CIA agent Teddy Fay, it was very easy to slip into the story and characters even though most of the story was kind of far fetched. As one reviewer noted, the sex scenes weren't integral to the storyline, and it seemed that Stone, Holly, Dino and Genevieve were more interested in constantly drinking pitchers of vodka gimlets and tropical fruit punch. How convenient that the Inn where they were staying featured it's own nude beach? You could just picture Stone and Dino leering at all the naked bodies up and down the beach. Anyway, again we are left wondering whether or not Teddy Fay made it out dead or alive-meaning we can eventually expect another storyline featuring the chase to bring him down once and for all.

In Wood's earlier Teddy Fay novels, Teddy kills a fundamentalist preacher, a conservative Supreme Court justice, and the Republican Speaker of the House. In this one he kills an island dictator and two of his henchmen who used to work for Papa Doc. Teddy is a good guy because he kills such obvious bad guys. In his next novel he will probably wax long about how terrible it is that the country has become so politically divided since Newt and the boys took over Congress. What a hypocrite! (By the way, the story was lacking too.)

The whole book seemed like it was leading somewhere but never arrived. At the end, you almost felt like you had been set up for a sequel. Not particularly well written, not especially interesting. Just enough good stuff to make you feel like something good was just around the corner. I'm still waiting.

This mystery was poorly conceived. The plot did not flow, it was not even close to believable, and it made little sense. Definately the worst I've read by Woods.