Stuart Woods’ Deep Water (A Stone Barrington Novel)
Stone Barrington, bon vivant, up by his own bootstraps, living a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse.
From New York, to Maine, and across the pond to London, a killer out for revenge. It’s up to Stone and friends to stop the carnage.
Stuart Woods’ Deep Water (A Stone Barrington Novel)
But about the Stuart Woods’ books, and my growing collection of hardcover, first editions. I trace this back to a childhood event. Some part of a distant upbringing, I had, maybe, three or four Hardy Boys books, the blue cover, part of the collection, and there were two or three Nancy Drew books, as well. Yellow cover on those. Now, I’m basing this solely on personal recollections, and as such, subject to leaky memory, but the way I recall it? I was told that books like Hardy Boys were best as library books, even though my wee mind back then saw shelf full of the books. I wanted my own library.
Old girlfriend, some years later, got me started reading the Stone Barrington novels, and I got hooked on the absolute lack of style in the prose itself. Ripping good yarns. Plot, pacing, story, character, and best of all? Straight narrative prose, no filler, just enough words. Pared down prose. Stylistically bland. I liked that, learned from it. Well, maybe I didn’t learn, but I did enjoy it. Do enjoy it. Start Woods, himself, shuffled off the mortal coil, but his literary estate lives on. There’s a subtle shift in the new authors and their attempts to copy that lack of style. Little voices creep in. Still, for my reading experience, I like the material.
