Will Lee #2 Run before the Wind

Will Lee, or Willie, as he is called later in this book is the son of Will Lee, the attorney in Stuart’s book Chiefs. It’s a tale of, the law, love, and the IRA. Taking place around 1971. Will Lee is asked to take some time off Law School due to the fact that he was not living up to his expectations. So he travels to Ireland, the land of his mother, and spent some time with his grandfather. He meet a girl named Connie who teaches at a local school. When he can’t get what he really wants from Connie he moves on traveling to England. He meets a couple named Annie and Mark after saving a boat from crashing into other boats. Mark is a slightly eccentric ex Royal Marine is having issues with his wife Annie but is slightly oblivious to it. The boat that Will saved belongs to a man named Derek Thrasher. Thrasher is a very secretive man who has a high financial standing but likes to remain very private. Thrasher is sponsoring Mark to build a boat that Mark will sail in a single handed race and then turn the boat over to Thrasher. Mark asks Will, only after having known him for a few hours, to help him build to boat. Willie agrees taking the job that leads them back to Ireland to the same small town that his grandfather lives. In a pervious life, Mark killed a young member of the IRA while he was still severing in the Marines. When word gets out in this small Irish town it stirs up a lot of trouble for the three new friends. When Mark re-injures his knee, an injury that originally occurred the night he killed the kid in the IRA, and has to go back to England to have it repaired leaving Willie in charge, all the while trying to sneak the boat out of Ireland because Thrasher is being sued and it has been found out he is the true owner of the boat and the lawyers are trying to attach the boat to the lien. After a spat with Will, over a trip to Paris, Will hooked up with Thrasher’s personal secretary; Connie still helps Will finish the boat. While Thrasher’s law troubles are handled things start to settle down. It turns out that Connie’s best friend who was a nun is in the IRA and is the cause of major trouble for Mark, Annie, and Will. What keeps Will safe is his father is a prominent politician in the US and the IRA does not want to harm him because it could cause loss of support in the states. With the IRA after Thrasher, Mark and Annie the tale is intriguing.
This reviewer believed since, it was the second book Mr. Woods published he really found his style here. The book started out very slowly but about half way through it really pick up and almost could not be put down. Giving this book a rating. With a list of books to read it might be a little bit before this reader orders the next in the series.