Smooth Operator (A Teddy Fay Novel) Paperback – May 2, 2017

Good book.

SMOOTH OPERATOR by Stuart Woods was not your typical series of Stone Barrington love scenes. Stone, who was summoned by the White House was asked to help find the kidnapped daughter of the Speaker of the House. But, he has to operate "behind the scene" to preserve the life of the girl. Stone recognizes the complicated mess that could ensue and enlists the aid of a former CIA agent, Teddy Fay. Mr. Fay agrees to help and from that point to the end of the book, their is nothing but continued action, action and more action. The story is well developed and the characters are interesting, to say the least. I will not spoil the ending, but will say that Teddy Fay does not disappoint. Perhaps I enjoyed this book as the coauthor was Parnell Hall, and their are some other interesting characters as well.

This is a Teddy Fay book by Stuart Woods. I have read all of his books, Stone Barrington is a wonderful character, Teddy Fay is full of intrigue, he has wonderful, dangerous adventures. The Bad characters a;ways lose. I love these books, I highly recommend them.

Great read!

I stopped reading the Stone Barrington novels years ago but I decided to check out Teddy Fay, a new spin off. It was fun in places and had a complex but easily seen through plot. It was better than the Stone Barrington novels mainly because it moved along without a dozen ridiculous sex scenes with the protagonist and a beautiful woman he just met. With the exception of one such obligatory scene at the beginning (with Stone of course), the rest was all Teddy Fay, he of a thousand disguises and quick-firing gun. It was somewhat entertaining, I will give it that. But not good enough that I would pick up the next one. Too many really good books out there to spend my time with this one.

Teddy Fay is an interesting character in the Stuart Woods books. He is a former CIA member and a former criminal who was on the run for a long period of time. Teddy Fay is an expert in using make-up to change his identities. He flies airplanes and is a very dangerous character. Teddy now works for Stone Barrington`s son in Hollywood. In this book he is called on to help Stone and the CIA catch some bad guys. The book is very exciting and well written. I like the Teddy Fay character better than Stone Barrington now. This is a good, easy to read book.

Smooth Operator is a quick and entertaining read. More fast-paced than Stone Barrington novels and less sex. The only negative is that it can be a little confusing, too contrived, but still a fun read.

This is a throwback to Stuart Woods' glory days of complex and convoluted plots; apparently Parnell Hall's contribution. I like it. It still has Stuart Woods humor and references to characters and events from previous books, which gives me a feeling of familiarity - which is one of the reasons I have read every one of Woods' books. Smooth Operator is about Teddy Fay, one of Woods' most interesting characters; Fay is the only regular character who kills people, so there is a bit of violence, but it is not graphic or gratuitous, but rather subtle and intriguing. Fay's killings are always ironic, in that his victims clearly deserve what they got. I usually read Woods' newest books in bed, to help me go to sleep, but I couldn't put Smooth Operator down, and read straight through the night. It's not soporific. Don't start it unless you've got time to finish it.

Another good read.

Schnelle Lieferung. Buch gut lesbar und hat interessante Story. Obwohl nicht dazu gehörend, fügt es sich gut in die Stone Barrington-Serie ein

Stone was summoned to the White House for that night's state dinner. He knows something is wrong when, on route to the dinner, a car pulls up beside him and opens fire. At the White House, Stone learns a congressman's daughter has been kidnapped.After speaking with the president, Stone knows he has a real problem. He's not trained to take on a case of this magnitude, and he's been told he can't tell the police. So, that means he can't tell Dino. And that only leaves one person Stone knows of, that can handle the problem, and get away with it. And, if he's going to contact that person, he can't tell the president who it is either.After Stone brings the person up to date, with what's going on, the guy sets out to accomplish his task. He takes the job because he feels he owes Stone and someone else big time. It's not a question of whether he'll succeed, because he's never failed in the past. The only question Is who's he going to have to take out.

Stuart woods writes a good story.

Thoroughly enjoyed it, but would have liked to have seen more of the 'new' (or is that old?) character in it. Perhaps Stuart is gently 'breaking in' Teddy for future books?