Ronald A. (rarendt) reviewed on 9/29/2012 + 107 more book reviews

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Stuart Woods used to be a better writer than this. I started reading him when he wrote his first hit "Chiefs", and have read (or at least started) everything he has written up to this book. His early work was always worth reading with a lot of different and interesting characters and entertaining plots. Somewhere along the line, sometime within the last five years, success seems to have spoiled him.

This book was, at least, not another Stone Barrington bedroom marathon; it was a stand-alone piece set in the pre-WW2 Hollywood film community. The hero, as usual, is a hunk, a Beverly Hills policeman, recently demoted from detective for sexuasl pecadillos, who stretches the law one night to save the skin of a fictitious movie leading man, and, as a result, becomes head of secfurity for a studio. He seems to just fall into everything after that, great cars, good looking women (Wood never writes about any plain-looking people), drinks and dinner with the Holltywood elite.... I didn't finish the book, so things may have got more interesting after the first 150 pages, but my remaining life span is probably too short, and there are too many other books I really want to read. Probably a good airplane or beach book; you won't really care if you forget it on the plane or in the sand.

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