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by: Stuart Woods

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Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780060725334
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN: 0060725338
Label: HarperAudio
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Studio: HarperAudio
Sales Rank: 1830700




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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
On the heels of Stuart Woods's spectacular New York Times-bestselling Dead in the Water (more than 100,000 hardcover copies sold) comes an explosive new Stone Barrington thriller set in the dazzling world of Hollywood. When the Vance Calder, Hollywood's Hottest Actor and husband of Stone Barrington's ex-girlfriend Arrington, calls Stone for help, the New York lawyer-turned-investigator knows something's amiss. Arrington has vanished, and Calder, refusing to call in the police, wants Stone to find her. Soon, the intrepid investigator (who still carries a torch for his former love) finds himself in deep -- and in deep waters -- as he pursues every lead. To make matters worse, everyone he meets is suspect -- from Armani-clad mobsters to movie moguls who suspiciously want to make him a star. In this town of sharks, Stone must use all his wits to keep his head above water ... without losing it. Drenched in the Hollywood glitz and glamour readers love, and filled with the dizzying plot twists and turns that have made his novels international bestsellers, Swimming to Catalina is Stuart Woods's fastest paced, most riveting, and unabashedly fun thriller yet -- one that's sure to race up bestseller lists from coast to coast!



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - More like Drowning To Catalina...
When I'm into a good read, I will have that book by my side until it's finished.. I put this book down for 5 days and nearly forgot about it! If that tells you much..
I have been caught in a spell of finding horribly boring books lately, where this book was recommended as "an amazing story." How could you go wrong with that?, I thought. Yeah well, to my disappointment, I was bored through this entire book. There were so many different characters and names to remember, I got lost a nearly gave up in the beginning. Forcing myself to finish the book, I was hoping for a possible twist ending to wake me up, but that never happened. I ended up skipping about 30-40 pgs to get to the last chapter -just to see how it ends (so I could start on a real page turner). Little to my surprise it was a ... Read More



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Woods is a quick read, but pretty lousy
This book was better than Dark Harbor (the first and most recent book I have read from this author), but not much better. I like Woods' style of writing, it is quick and to the point, but his plots are so ridiculous, it's hard to get through. His books should be half as long because all his characters go around in circles about a dozen times. He's got to come up with some better names: Stone? Arrington? Dino? Ippolito? Barrington? C'mon, buddy.

What else can I say, it's slightly less stupid than Dark Harbor. Stone really needs to dump Arrington and get a better friend than Dino.

This book doesn't have any plot twists or multiple suspects to care about. And the direction he gets the reader to go in from the beginning is never touched upon until the last four pages.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent read
He makes the books very exciting and I just want to hurry and read it so I know how it ends. To keep a person attached to a book like that takes a lot of talent, and he's got it.





Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Standard Stone Barrington tale
Stuart Woods can write really good novels like "Chiefs", but this is not close to that quality. However, it is an entertaining and moderately exciting read. Not the author's best, but readable and enjoyable.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - This book makes a real splash!
Wow, what an amazing book - it starts with a splash (literally) in the prologue, where we find Stone Barrington, bound with duct tape, being chained to an anchor, then summarily thrown into the Pacific. Flashback to New York: he receives a phone call from Vance Calder - Arrington is missing, can Stone come to LA right away? At first Stone demurs, then Vance throws in the kicker - Arrington is pregnant. Whose baby is it? Not even Arrington knows. When Stone gets to LA, however, Vance is behaving a bit peculiarly, and suddenly Stone finds himself being distracted from the case - first by being abruptly cast for a role in the movie that Vance is filming (much to Stone's horror and embarassment!), then by Vance's secretary . . . then by a girl he finds who looks a great deal like Arrington and who, ... Read More


 


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