Ed Eagle · Book 2
Short Straw
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 392
- ISBN-13
- 9780451220844
- Type
- novel

About this book
Short Straw didn't follow until 2006 -- a fourteen-year gap -- opening with the shock of Eagle's own wife trying to have him killed, across 392 pages.
Its place in Ed Eagle
Short Straw is book 2 in the Ed Eagle series. It follows Santa Fe Rules. It is followed by Santa Fe Dead. See the full Ed Eagle reading order.
Ed Eagle is a high-profile Santa Fe criminal defense attorney, introduced in Santa Fe Rules (1992) defending a client accused of a gruesome murder, then developed across three further novels beginning fourteen years later that lean harder into thriller territory: Short Straw (2006) opens with the shock of Eagle's own wife trying to have him killed, and the two Santa Fe books that follow keep him tangled in Southwestern intrigue, courtroom maneuvering and the kind of moneyed danger that runs through all of Stuart…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451220844