Cold Paradise by Stuart Woods

What garbage. This was a selection by my book club. In our defense, we are trying to read "popular" authors with some tie to our area, and Stuart Woods was born somewhere south of Atlanta. He's certainly popular, and prolific, but the boot is a thriller in the same vein as the Patterson novels. I didn't care for it at all, for the usual reasons that I don't care for these type of thrillers: improbable plot, shallow story, cardboard characters, manufactured twists and turns to keep you reading. And as an added bonus this one had lots of unrealistic sex scenes, that were not in the least bit provocative. If you have to write a sex scene, then read "The Mambo Kings" first to see how it's really done, don't bother with this novel.