Shoot Him If He Runs: A Stone Barrington Novel

Woods, Stuart

3.88

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9780143142461: Shoot Him If He Runs: A Stone Barrington Novel

ISBN 10: 0143142461 ISBN 13: 9780143142461

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2007

Sent by the CIA to a beautiful Caribbean island where they are to track down murderous rogue agent Teddy Fay, the team of Stone Barrington, Holly Barker, and Dino Baldachetti finds their mission thwarted by corrupt local politicians and secretive American expatriates. By the author of Iron Orchid. Simultaneous.

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Review:

"Stuart Woods, the Nora Roberts of mystery best-sellerdom."

"Typical Woods fare--fast-paced, glossy, and always entertaining."

"The Barrington novels continue to impress, with likable characters, fast pacing, and original story lines."

A Stone Barrington novel never lacks witty dialogue or intriguing characters. Albuquerque Journal
Woods certainly knows how to keep the pages turning. Booklist"

"A Stone Barrington novel never lacks witty dialogue or intriguing characters."--Albuquerque Journal

"Woods certainly knows how to keep the pages turning."--Booklist

Praise for Stuart Woods
"Stuart Woods is a no-nonsense, slam-bang storyteller."--Chicago Tribune
"A world-class mystery writer...I try to put Woods's books down and I can't."--Houston Chronicle
"Mr. Woods, like his characters, has an appealing way of making things nice and clear."--The New York Times
"Woods certainly knows how to keep the pages turning."--Booklist
"Since 1981, readers have not been able to get their fill of Stuart Woods' New York Times bestselling novels of suspense."--Orlando Sentinel
"Woods's Stone Barrington is a guilty pleasure...he's also an addiction that's harder to kick than heroin."--Contra Costa Times (California)

About the Author:

Stuart Woods was born in the small town of Manchester, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in sociology and moved to Atlanta, where he enlisted in the Air National Guard. In the fall of 1960, Woods moved to New York in search of a career in writing, and remained there for a decade working in advertising, with the exception of ten months spent in Mannheim, Germany with the National Guard during the Berlin Wall crisis of 1961-62.

An attack of wanderlust drew Woods to London, where he worked in advertising agencies until the idea of writing a novel called him to a small flat in the stableyard of a castle in County Galway, Ireland. There, Woods completed one hundred pages of a novel before he discovered sailing, after which, “everything went to hell. All I did was sail.”

Woods took his sailing to a higher level, competing in the Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race (OSTAR) in 1976, and the catastrophic Fastnet Race in 1979 in which fifteen competitors died. In October and November of that year, Woods sailed his friend’s yacht across the Atlantic, calling at the ports of Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands, before finishing at Antigua in the Caribbean.

The next couple of years were spent in Georgia, where Woods wrote two non-fiction books:Blue Water, Green Skipper, an account of his Irish experience and the subsequent transatlantic race; and a travel guide entitledA Romantic Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and Ireland, which Woods says he wrote “on a whim.” W.W. Norton in New York bought the rights toBlue Water, Green Skipper, and published Woods’ first novel, Chiefs, in 1981.Chiefs won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America that year, was nominated for Palindrome, and was made into a six-hour television drama starring Charlton Heston for CBS. In 2006, Woods had twoNew York Times national bestsellers with Dark Harbor and Short Straw, and repeated the feat in 2007 withFresh Disasters and Shoot Him If He Runs.

Woods, who has written thirty-three novels, currently resides in Florida, New York City and Maine.

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