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Doing Hard Time A Stone Barrington Novel Stuart Woods Books

A long time ago, Stuart Woods wrote some really good books. "Chiefs," for instance, a novel set in his home town of Delano, GA. "Blue Water, Green Skipper," an autobiographical travel tale of his solo sail across the Atlantic. He wrote some other fairly decent mysteries, involving Stone Barrington, Holly Barker, and Ed Eagle, and had some fun stirring them all together at different times. Okay so far? Then, well, Mr. Woods got really rich and famous and really lazy. His characters are all rich and sexy and growing older but not wiser, they screw everything without consequence, drink like fish without liver problems and just chat up a storm. Essentially he writes now what I can only term "Adult Hardy Boys" books. If all you are looking for is a sort of humorous romp with everyone flaunting their knowledge of airplanes and Hollywood and finally , oh, by the way, catching the bad guys, he's your author du jour.

In this tale Stone is still plagued by the Russian Mob, and oh, yes, Teddy Faye is there, to liven things up and save the day, using his remarkable skills as a former CIA tech expert. Dino goes with Stone to LA, their respective offspring are their making a film, the mob shows up, Teddy shows up, the standard formula unfolds, and it all works out in the end. No brainer. Mr. Woods carts his royalties off to the bank. My guess, he can probably write one of these in about a month.


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Doing Hard Time A Stone Barrington Novel Stuart Woods Books Reviews

Fast, easy, fun. Love the Teddy Fay development in this novel and look forward to how the character will develop in the future. The Stone Barrington novels are entertaining, nothing heavy...and that is exactly why I enjoyed this book. For a few hours, I read and escape and laugh along the way. The characters could easily become a fun television drama, light intrigue. Some of the more recent Woods novels were lackluster, but this one showed signs that perhaps Mr. Woods is back on his game. Pumping out novels more quickly is probably challenging, and I've noted that Woods books are now coming at faster pace.
While this story circled Stone Barrington. He certainly was not the main focus of the story line. That focus went to a man named Teddy Fay, a former CIA agent who has managed to slip under the radar through clever manipulation of personal records through his mastery of computers. He has taken on the job of being the protective guardian of Stone's son Peter in order to save the young man from being murdered by a Russian Mafia figure Majorov. The Russian Mafia is ruthless, but they are not in the same ballpark as Teddy Fay, Whose alias is Billy Barnett. Most of the action takes place in Los Angeles at Centurion movie lot where Peter is producing a movie. The book. Is easy reading. The plot is easy to follow and it is a book that you can enjoy without blatant sex scenes and enormous use of foul language, which is kind of refreshing. Anyhow I liked the book and finished it during one snowy day. I can't say it was my most favorite of Stuart Woods books but it did move along swiftly. Doing Hard Time really didn't seem all that hard to do.
I gave the Chiefs 4 stars because I 'liked' that book. Woods loves clichés and his sentences are predictable but there is something about old clichés (the Chiefs) that is attractive. It deals, after all, with historically important issues.

I did not find anything attractive about this book. The villains are Russians, as in many other books of this genre, merciless but easily defeated by a very smart American with a heart of gold.

Russians may be very bad (look what is going on in Ukraine) but this book was written before the current events and these diabolic Russians lived here in the US.

The male primaries are not that young but immediately conquer gorgeous females.

Yes, and nobody uses scheduled air transportation, everyone has his own plane. Since the author has one or more as well, the details may be reliable but irrelevant to 99.99% of readers that have to fly under the auspices of the TSA.

I cannot recommend this book to anyone, it is currently NOT on the New York Times bestseller list and even the next one published in 2014 did not make it there (yet).

Two stars for some authentic avionic jargon.
I feel like Charlie Brown, and Lucy has just asked me to throw her the football and she'll give it right back...but she doesn't, of course. That's the way I feel about this book. I have read every one of Stuart Woods's books and lately they have been mediocre to downright boring. But, like Charlie Brown, I fell for this new Stone Barrington novel and bought it and was again disappointed. This should not be called a "Stone Barrington Novel." It should be called a "Teddy Fay Novel."

Stone Barrington is a minor character now as is Dino. Teddy Fay calls the shots in this novel and, frankly, Teddy Fay is not what I want in a main character. He simply eradicates people at will. ( In a previous novel, that irritating Herby was the main character.)

Oh, for the days of "Swimming to Catalina," Dead in the Water," etc. when Stone and Dino were charismatic characters and the plots were fast-paced and fun.

The other problem is that the book is emotionless and lacking in depth. One really doesn't get to know Stone's son Peter, except that he is brilliant, instantly writes a play that Hollywood wants, is terribly wealthy and one of his main problems is---should he buy his own airplane or let Stone give him one. Dino, who was at one time an interesting, street-smart cop, has gone Hollywood on us and now has a butler and a housekeeper. It is interesting how Teddy Fay can change his persona and keep outwitting people who are after him, but after a while, even that gets tedious.

I know Stone is getting long in the tooth and has more money than he knows what to do with, but would it be impossible for him to give us one last hurrah as the Stone Barrington we once knew? And maybe Dino could shake his butler long enough to join him in one of their escapades that we Barrington fans did so enjoy in previous Stuart woods's novels.
A long time ago, Stuart Woods wrote some really good books. "Chiefs," for instance, a novel set in his home town of Delano, GA. "Blue Water, Green Skipper," an autobiographical travel tale of his solo sail across the Atlantic. He wrote some other fairly decent mysteries, involving Stone Barrington, Holly Barker, and Ed Eagle, and had some fun stirring them all together at different times. Okay so far? Then, well, Mr. Woods got really rich and famous and really lazy. His characters are all rich and sexy and growing older but not wiser, they screw everything without consequence, drink like fish without liver problems and just chat up a storm. Essentially he writes now what I can only term "Adult Hardy Boys" books. If all you are looking for is a sort of humorous romp with everyone flaunting their knowledge of airplanes and Hollywood and finally , oh, by the way, catching the bad guys, he's your author du jour.

In this tale Stone is still plagued by the Russian Mob, and oh, yes, Teddy Faye is there, to liven things up and save the day, using his remarkable skills as a former CIA tech expert. Dino goes with Stone to LA, their respective offspring are their making a film, the mob shows up, Teddy shows up, the standard formula unfolds, and it all works out in the end. No brainer. Mr. Woods carts his royalties off to the bank. My guess, he can probably write one of these in about a month.