Search - Shoot Him If He Runs (Stone Barrington, Bk 14)

Stone Barrington and Holly Baker head to St. Marks in Stuart Woods’ Shoot Him If He Runs. At the request of the President Will Lee and his wife CIA director Kate Rule Lee, they go to St. Marks to look for an ex CIA employee who they thought died in an earlier book.

I recommend that Stuart Woods’ books be read in order. This is Stone’s second trip to St. Marks, so you are reintroduced to people he already knows. It is a good book full of the usually murder, sex, and mystery that we all love Woods’ book for.

Another great read featuring Stone Barrington and Holly Barker. Stone is usually very funny on his one but teamed up with Holly and it makes for a great read. I highly recommend this book. What's great about this series is you can read any book no need to start about the begining.

This was typical Woods reading, but his books seems to be getting shorter and shorter. No new characters, just the same faces in the same places.

I was really hoping for a little more.

I have read all the Stone Barrington/Holly Barker books and I must say that the plots have been getting boring, the characters interchangeable, and the villains more ludicrous. However, this novel, which started out rather ploddingly, with Stone, Holly and Dino heading back to St. Marks to find the elusive and believed dead Teddy Fay, took a turn for the better at around page 130. Just as I was thinking of not finishing this novel (a big yawn), things started getting exciting, characters started coming to life, and there were tricks and surprises! So I was extremely pleasantly surprised to race through the remaining 2/3 of the book to fnd out what would happen! One caveat: Woods is not good at character development, and his "sex scenes" are poorly written, mechanical, laced with profanity (mainly the "f" word) coming from every character, even the fictional president of the United States and his wife. You can tell this book is written by a male- that's all I can say!