num_pages: 289
description: Short Straw reintroduces Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle, who first appeared in Stuart Woods's 1992 thriller, Santa Fe Rules. In his first adventure, Ed fell in love with the seductive Barbara Kennerly, and married her-against his better judgment.  Turns out that Ed should have listened to his intuition. Ed Eagle awakens the morning after his fortieth birthday to find that Barbara has vanished, and Ed's money-from his business, his bank, and his brokerage accounts-has been wired to the Cayman Islands. Barbara, it appears, had drugged his birthday wine, neatly cleaned him out and then fled to Mexico, from where she can't be extradited. And as if that weren't bad enough, when Ed arrives at work that morning he discovers that he's been assigned a new client who looks like nothing but trouble-Joe Big Bear, a part-time mechanic charged with a triple homicide. Ed hires two slightly shady investigators to search for his wife. But when they track Barbara down in Puerto Vallarta, they discover that Joe Big Bear may also be embroiled in Barbara's plot. Ed soon finds himself caught in a scheme that is much more far reaching-and deadly-than anyone would have expected.
language: English
title: Short Straw
titlecomplete: Short Straw (Ed Eagle, #2)
characters: The Police Captain in Puerto Vallarta, Wolf Willett, Cupie Dalton, Russell Norris, Emiliano Rodriguez, Joe Big Bear, Rick Barron, Susannah Wilde, The Governor of New Mexico, Pedro Alvarez (Short Straw), The gun shop owner, Barbara Eagle, The guys in the black Suburban, Tupelo, Joe Morales, and Tom Cartwright,, Ernesto (Short Straw), Lieutenant Charles Vickers, Dan, the photoshop owner, Fred and Arthur, Mrs. Creighton, Judge Eamon O'Hara, Carlos Rodriguez, Harold Fuentes and Bobby, Ed Eagle, James Long, Vittorio (Santa Fe Edge), Bob Martinez, Birgit (Short Straw), Julia Camden Willett, Betty (Short Straw), Sally Potter
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Crime, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 3903
places: Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana, Los Angeles, California, Mexico City (México City), Santa Fe, New Mexico
series: Ed Eagle
publisher: Putnam Publishing Group