The Eagle Heist: A Beauford Sloan Mystery

Greensboro, NC: Harlan Publishing Company, 2000. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket.. 264 pages. Signed by author. Previous bookseller's stamp on fep. Introduction by Wilford Brimley. The author was also a director of television shows, including those in which Brimley appeared. The author was also a stuntman and stunt arranger, working on such films as North by Northwest, Spartacus, and the British series The Avengers. This is the author's first Beauford Sloan work. The book has received rave reviews and is an outstanding start for television director Raymond Austin, whose works include The Saint, The Avengers, Hawaii Five-U, Hart to Hart, Vegas, Quincy, Magnum, P.I., AirWolf, Spenser: For Hire, JAG, and the list goes on and on. The Eagle Heist, the first of television director Raymond Austin's Beauford Sloan Mystery series, has private detective Beauford Sloan hot on the trail of those who cleverly robbed an armor truck of millions of dollars of diamonds. An Eagle Security armored truck carrying sixteen million dollars worth of diamonds and three million in cash disappears in Washington, D.C. The only clue the police and FBI have is the distress call from the crew of Eagle Eleven as it was under attack. Six months later, with the case having gone cold, ex-Virginia cop turned private eye Beauford Sloan takes the case and sets out on a trail of clues where death seems to follow his every step.