Santa Fe Edge’ starts with whom I
believe to be the main character, the lawyer, who is called on to defend a
local golf pro in jail for killing his wife.
Following some slick talking, the lawyer convinces the police there is
no way the golf pro is guilty, and to pursue such an empty case would be an
utter waste of time: thus, the golf pro is released.
Next,
the story moves to a prison in Mexico where the ex-wife of this same lawyer in
Santa Fe is being held, and sexually abused, by the captain of the prison. The woman connives a plan to escape, does so,
and is on her way back to the States.
Right
here at this point is where I must complain as to the huge hole in the story
this incident presents. This woman is
introduced as a sympathetic character.
But as I learned as I furthered myself into the tale, she is actually a
cold-blooded killer with designs on killing her ex-husband lawyer – thus, Santa
Fe being her destination.
Why? Because she’s crazy. But she’s also very, very smart.
Add
into this mix of people, a beautiful young woman who gets herself hired as the
new assistant to the golf pro, while entering into an affair with the lawyer’s
ex-wife who happens to move into the house next door; two investigators working
for the lawyer to track down the ex-wife when they hear of her escape; an
ex-CIA agent being hunted by the FBI (I never figured out precisely why) who
eludes them because he knows all their secrets; and include, for good measure,
a billionaire husband to the lawyer’s ex-wife and the possibility of her
receiving all his money upon his impending death, and you have ‘Santa Fe Edge’.
I found myself thoroughly perplexed by
all of it. Then someone who knew Stuart
Woods’ work explained to me what I read was a series. The story never stops. It just continues onward to the next
book. So is such is your flavor, open up
these pages and enjoy
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