Shades of "Chief", his first and best. I enjoyed this one---there were several possibilities and Woods played them all. His standalone books are better plotted than the Stone Barrington series. ( )

First edition signed as new

The very first Stuart Woods book I ever read... and I LOVED it! I didn't want it to end. ( )

A tennis pro becomes enmeshed in a murder. This book moved fastf! ( )

An intriguing deceptive cat and mouse murder mystery of who done it. It begins when Chuck Chandler chokes on the verge of winning The Wimbledon Championship, he realizes his career is over as a touring pro tennis player and take a job as a teaching instructor in Key West Florida. He's introduced to Harry and Clare Carras by his fellow teaching instructor Victor Brennan, Harry is sixtyish and she's thirty years younger and beautiful, Chuck immediately starts having an affair with Clare, things are hot and heavy in the sex department. Clare invites Chuck to go on a scuba dive at a shipwreck with her and her husband, Harry dives first, when Chuck catches up with him, Harry's lying on the deck of the wreck unconscious, mask off his face with blood in it. Chuck immediately starts feeling sick and begins to vomit in his mask and has too surface for air, he deploys his air bag and surfaces. Harry's body is never found, his death is very suspicious and all fingers are pointing towards Chuck as the murderer, now the cat and mouse of whom done it begins. Detective Tommy Sculley arrives after retiring as a homicide detective for the NYPD and takes charge of this investigation, with the help of a 1st day detective, 17 year old Daryl Haynes. They both are constantly evaluating evidense and putting individuals on limpet, trying to solve this bazaar murder mystery. I really enjoy this novel, one of those books you couldn't put down, I kind of wished it wouldn't end, but they all do. ( )