Near Miss

Near Miss

Something just fun, and even though the actual author passed, it seems that his works live on.

There was a pace, and the way the book is assembled, as a text, as thriller, as a continuation in a series, with various characters ushered in and out? Still, the original appeal holds, and I was more than a quarter of the way into the current narrative before the actual hook, the plot device to get me roped in as a reader.

What’s changed, though, was the tension, and the original Stuart Woods did a better job — I would just leave a whole day to read one the books, rather than letting me get interrupted.

Maybe being at the beach, maybe fishing, maybe other activities? In my limited perspective, the oeuvre as a whole, and even the these latter, “co-authored” novels, still good. Enjoyable for me.

Careful plotting, not quite as breakneck in the posthumous format, but still rather enjoyable, compelling in its own way.

Near Miss


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