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Summary: I could NOT put it down!
Review: I started this book at 9:00 last night and finished, exhausted, at 1:35 a.m.! Maybe the plot was a bit contrived, but I couldn't help getting caught up in the web of the story...I kept thinking I'd quit after the next paragraph, but I kept reading until the final page. I liked Jesse Warden and was rooting for him all the way....I liked the fact that Woods showed Warden -- warts and all. No, he wasn't perfect, and yes, he probably would have killed Baker, but I might have done the very same thing, had my life gone down the toilet like his! I, too, would like to see the movie! I'll bet no one would leave the theatre until Jesse and Jenny and the kids were safe and sound! I'm a Stuart Woods fan, but had missed this one. I'm sleepy at work today, but it was well worth it. Enjoy!
Rating:
Summary: I could NOT put it down!
Review: I started this book at 9:00 last night and finished, exhausted, at 1:35 a.m.! Maybe the plot was a bit contrived, but I couldn't help getting caught up in the web of the story...I kept thinking I'd quit after the next paragraph, but I kept reading until the final page. I liked Jesse Warden and was rooting for him all the way....I liked the fact that Woods showed Warden -- warts and all. No, he wasn't perfect, and yes, he probably would have killed Baker, but I might have done the very same thing, had my life gone down the toilet like his! I, too, would like to see the movie! I'll bet no one would leave the theatre until Jesse and Jenny and the kids were safe and sound! I'm a Stuart Woods fan, but had missed this one. I'm sleepy at work today, but it was well worth it. Enjoy!
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Summary: His best
Review: Can I give more stars? I've read all Woods' books and this is my favorite. I've rarely been disapointed with SW,(DIRT), but the none stop action, the clever diologue, the literally gripping suspense makes this an easy A+. I've read it 3 times and bought it as a gift at least 5. When I heard "HEAT" was going to be a movie I was elated, only to be brought back to earth when I found out it had nothing to do with Woods' story. Their mistake.
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Summary: His best
Review: Can I give more stars? I've read all Woods' books and this is my favorite. I've rarely been disapointed with SW,(DIRT), but the none stop action, the clever diologue, the literally gripping suspense makes this an easy A+. I've read it 3 times and bought it as a gift at least 5. When I heard "HEAT" was going to be a movie I was elated, only to be brought back to earth when I found out it had nothing to do with Woods' story. Their mistake.
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Summary: Lacks sense of place
Review: Correctimundo that this would make an excellent movie, per other reviews, and it's a suspenseful "good read" as they say. A real page-turner, it has plot-twists that keep the reader wondering. However -- it also make you wonder if the author has ever been to any of the locales Jesse Warden and other characters visit. Although catalogued as having an Idaho setting, the country around the fictional locale of the Aryan Universe is nothing like that described, and you get no feel for Idaho at all. Cult-members fly into Tacoma's Narrows Airport, which IS NOT on one of the "many small islands in Puget Sound." When Jesse Warden flies commercial to Washington DC, he has business in College Park Maryland and then a quick return to "Idaho." But he uses Washington National and Dulles airports, which are in Virginia, while College Park is just 25 miles down US Route 1 from Baltimore-Washington International. Author Woods lives in Santa Fe -- a small town in West Virginia's Pocono Mountains.
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Summary: quite good
Review: first stuart woods book i've read and it quite good. the plot is very addictive and easy to follow. its easy to read and although i noticed many flaws the book was nice.
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Summary: Fast-Paced Thriller Delivers The Goods
Review: HEAT is phenomenally entertaining, thanks to adrenaline-rush pacing, intriguing plot developments, and a sense of immediacy too few novels are able to elicit. The overall storyline is far from inspired, yet Stuart Woods has developed his material extraordinary well. And he has a lead character in Jesse who's ingratiating, brave, and completely identifiable -- he's a pleasure to ride along the story with. The last quarter or so is the weak link, though, tying up the story components too mechanically and unsatisfyingly. Never mind that -- this is a thriller of the highest order.
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Summary: One of the best of Wood's efforts-Jesse Warden's a wimner.
Review: I am a frequent flyer (over 170 plane trips last year) and Stuart Woods represents a very significant resource for someone like me. He is a competent suspense writer with a much larger than average portfolio who is popular enough that his books can be found in some quantity in almost any airport bookstore and/or newsstand in America. There are times you've just got to find something to read in about 4 minutes--in those instances, Woods is a no brainer. This is not to say he's the best suspense writer around--he isn't. But, as my old man used to say, "Competence compensates for an awful lot..." With Woods, you know you are getting well conceived, well developed characters. Moreover, Woods understands the mechanics of suspense and uses that knowledge to good effect. If Woods has a failing, it's that his stories are uneven. Good characters and good mechanics don't add up to enough--a credible story line is needed as well. Woods never goes totally off the deep end, but he has been known to stretch credulity pretty badly out of shape. These are high grade potboilers. Hest is one of Woods better efforts. Jesse Warden is a hard as nails cop in the pen for planning to rip off the goods from a sting. He's offered an out to infiltrate and do in a Waco like survivalist cult group. I won't dwell on the details--you can well imagine them--and be pretty much on the money. But the characters are superb, the story line tight and consistent, the suspense at high tension level. If page turning potboilers are your thing, Woods is your man.
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Summary: One of the best of Wood's efforts-Jesse Warden's a wimner.
Review: I am a frequent flyer (over 170 plane trips last year) and Stuart Woods represents a very significant resource for someone like me. He is a competent suspense writer with a much larger than average portfolio who is popular enough that his books can be found in some quantity in almost any airport bookstore and/or newsstand in America. There are times you've just got to find something to read in about 4 minutes--in those instances, Woods is a no brainer. This is not to say he's the best suspense writer around--he isn't. But, as my old man used to say, "Competence compensates for an awful lot..." With Woods, you know you are getting well conceived, well developed characters. Moreover, Woods understands the mechanics of suspense and uses that knowledge to good effect. If Woods has a failing, it's that his stories are uneven. Good characters and good mechanics don't add up to enough--a credible story line is needed as well. Woods never goes totally off the deep end, but he has been known to stretch credulity pretty badly out of shape. These are high grade potboilers. Hest is one of Woods better efforts. Jesse Warden is a hard as nails cop in the pen for planning to rip off the goods from a sting. He's offered an out to infiltrate and do in a Waco like survivalist cult group. I won't dwell on the details--you can well imagine them--and be pretty much on the money. But the characters are superb, the story line tight and consistent, the suspense at high tension level. If page turning potboilers are your thing, Woods is your man.
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Summary: I really Enjoyed This Book
Review: I like his writing style. He's concise and doesn't use a paragraph where a sentence will do. A great plot line, well defined characters all combining to a great ending. A great beach, or airline flight, book.
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