Stuart Woods Run Before The Wind

Woods, Stuart. Capital Crimes Vol. # 3. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2003.
Excellent condition, with minimal shelf wear, the spine is slightly cocked. ; Will Lee Series; 1.19 x 9.26 x 6.32; 288 pages; CAPITAL CRIMES is the third thriller featuring Will Lee, the courageous and uncompromising politician from Georgia and one of Stuart Woods' most memorable and dynamic characters. Lee, introduced in the Edgar Award-winning CHIEFS, has been at the center of some of Woods' most beloved books, including the bestsellers: THE RUN;GRASS ROOTS; and RUN BEFORE THE WIND. In CAPITAL CRIMES, Lee again finds himself in the middle of a tangled web of intrigue and danger, politics and power. Now at the pinnacle of his career, serving as president of the United States, Lee is faced with a most unusual task -- that of marshaling federal law enforcement agencies to catch an assassin who is picking off some of the nation's high-level politicos. When a prominent conservative politician with a shady reputation is expertly killed at his lakeside cabin, authorities can come up with no suspects and even less hard evidence. But then, within days, two other, seemingly isolated deaths -- achieved by very different means - are feared linked to the same ruthless murderer. With the help of his CIA director wife, Kate Rule Lee, Will trails the most clever and professional of killers before he can strike again. From a quiet D. C. suburb to the corridors of power to a deserted island hideaway, Will, Kate and maverick FBI agent Robert Kinney track their man and set a trap with extreme caution and care -- and await the most dangerous kind of quarry, a killer with a cause to die for. CAPITAL CRIMES is another electrifying, edge-of-your-seat thriller from the masterful Stuart Woods.. 0399150900.

First Printing, Hardcover, Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket.

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Woods, Stuart: The Run, Harpercollins 2000
0060191872

1.14 x 9.25 x 6.12 Inches; 368 pages; <P><I>New York Times</I> bestselling author Stuart Woods continues to enthrall readers from coast to coast with his fast-paced, gripping stories and intriguing characters that have left his millions of fans clamoring for more. In his latest novel, this inventive writer brings back one of his most popular characters in a stunning thriller of politics, power, passion, and revenge.<P>Will Lee, the hero of the acclaimed national bestsellers <I>Run Before the Wind</I> and <I>Grassroots,</I> has finally established himself at the heart of American government as the respected senator from his home state of Georgia. Then a cruel stroke of fate thrusts him onto the national stage, well before he expects to be and long before he is ready for a national campaign.<P>The road to the White House, however, will be more treacherous than Will and Kate, his intelligent, strikingly beautiful wife and an associate director in the Central Intelligence Agency, can imagine. A decent, courageous, and principled man, Will soon learns he has more than one opponent with whom he must contend. Thrust into the national spotlight as never before, he becomes the target of clandestine forces from the past that will use all their money and influence to stop him--dead--in his tracks. Now Will isn't just running for president...he's running for his life.<P>Filled with all the suspense and rollercoaster plot twists that have become Stuart Woods's trademork, <I>The Run</I> is this master storyteller at his page-turning best. Hardcover

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Stuart Woods. The Run. HarperTorch, 20010301 ISBN: 0061013439
0061013439 Amazon Review Stuart Woods's lean, taut thrillers typically feature a helping of Hollywood glitz along with a suave, sophisticated hero who gets his man and usually the girl, too. His newest is a convincing variation on that formula, featuring an eminently decent, likable hero we've met before in a couple of legal thrillers (Run Before the Wind, Grass Roots). Now Will Lee is a senator from Georgia with somewhat ambivalent aspirations to the presidency; think Bill Clinton with a stronger moral center and a more conventional marriage, to a smart, sexy wife named Kate, who happens to be a high-ranking CIA executive. When the sitting vice president, who's slated to be the party's standard-bearer in the upcoming election, tells Will in confidence that he's just been diagnosed with early Alzheimer's disease, Will decides to make the run of the title. That's good news for an imprisoned former CIA agent (think Aldrich Ames) who was Kate Lee's mentor in the agency; he knows his only possible chance for a pardon is Will's election, and he has enough dirt on the senator's rivals to blackmail them into getting out of the way. Throw in a right-wing fanatic with a long-standing grudge against Will and a determination to assassinate him before he can make it to the White House, and you have all the ingredients for a successful run at the bestseller list. But while Woods's many fans will cheer for both the author and his protagonist, that may not be enough to vault this one to the top; Will doesn't seem to have the requisite fire in the belly, and neither does Woods in what is ultimately a fairly tepid read. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly The prolific Woods returns to his roots with an unexceptional new episode in his Lee family saga, a series dormant since 1989. Will and Kate Lee, now a Washington power couple, decide to go for broke in their service to the country. Will, a popular senator from Georgia, jumps into the race for the presidency, while Kate, a deputy director at the CIA, cheers him on. Will is for the most part about as likable as a politician can be, and boasts impeccable Democratic stripes. The Republicans try to stir up trouble by rehashing Will's sexual dalliance with a movie star nearly a decade earlier and raise questions about his competency as a lawyer on a rape and murder case many years ago. Will deflects those charges, but other problems are brewing. The candidate's liberal leanings are anathema to a right-wing militia group from Idaho, whose leader, Zeke Tennant, tracks Will from one campaign stop to another with a duffel bag full of weapons. In a final showdown, Tennant makes one last assassination attempt, this time while Will debates his Democratic primary challenger at Ford's Theater in the nation's capital. This fourth entry in the Lee family story, launched in 1981 with the Edgar-winning Chiefs, sparks from time to time but never catches fire. Lee would probably make a great president, but as a character he's all smooth surface, no edge and not very compelling. Worse, his run for the presidency lacks any real suspense. The assassin is too much of a bumbler to take seriously, and the Republicans' dirty tricks fizzle out quickly. For edge-of-the-seat drama, Woods (Worst Fears Realized) tries to inject energy into the uncertainty of the delegate-counting process at the party convention. Even political junkies won't get a rise out of that. (June) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. .

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Woods, Stuart: RUN BEFORE THE WIND, 1983 Nw York W W Norton & Company ; weicher Einband / soft cover

Softcover G+ Advance reader's copy of the author's second novel. "Bound" in paper wrappers and summarized as "a story of a young American's discovery of love and purpose in the violent drama of today's Ireland, and of adventure at sea. " Defects: Soiling and toning to wrappers with heavy soiling at lower rear cover, previous owner's name at upper front cover, and slight spine-roll. Interior clean and complete. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 337 pages; Rare book room fiction sml cream/brown fictcat

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