This is simple book with simple characters that saves itself with some interesting twists and turns toward the end. Most of the book just lollygags along with just enough to keep you going but turns to some unexpected development in the last 50 or so pages.

Woos just keeps on keeping on

As always Woods continues to amaze me with with his whit and humor, if its about a boat or a plane know-one has the the literary talent to hold a candle to Stuart Woods. Again I was amazed how many times I thought I had this novel figured out only to find out I was way off base. Another great read by Stuart Wood and another excellent storyline with more twists and turns then a country road.

I have limited reading time...couldn't wait to get to that time each day while reading this one! Love Stuart Woods books!

Stuart Woods books are most always a good read....l haven't yet read one I did not enjoy and I have read 15 at the very least.

This is the very best book I've ever read by Stuart Woods.
I don't much like his series books, for several reasons.
And one of those, a very political book, was so bad I wondered, right here on Goodreads, why he was allowed to publish anything else.
Well, "Choke" answers that.
It's clever, inventive, and has some interesting characters, with the only connection to his other work being that one character is from Woods' fictional town of Delano, Georgia, as are so many others of his characters.
In "Choke" are at least two characters who could have series of their own, but I hope they don't since Woods manages to detract badly his series creations.
This one, though, I do recommend.

Chuck, a tennis pro, lives on a boat. He "choked" at Wimbledon and lost the match. He now lives with his reputation...even named his boat Choke. He is caught up in a murder. This book is suspenseful and entertaining.

I think this is my first Stuart Woods book and I’m impressed !! This was such an awesome read. I was worried at first there may be too many characters and hard to follow but it wasn’t. Great book right till the end.

Easy read. Would have finished quicker if I didn’t have a lot on my plate. Sort of predictable. I guessed the ending but I also didn’t. You’ll have to read it to understand what I mean. Plenty of good sex scenes in the beginning. Don’t know if I would recommend d it. Maybe for vacations.

Choke

The plot was different from most mysteries. All main characters were involved until the conclusion of the last chapter. This was good recreational read for the sunny beach or a rainy day in a quiet home with no out standing chores that have a required deadline before someone gets home.

This 1995 novel is the 8th and final stand-alone thriller from author Stuart Woods before he devoted his writing to Stone Barrington and related series. I think his best writing was in these stand-alones and the first 2 or 3 of the Will Lee series; to this point Woods had written 15 books in 15 years, and he has 71 additional novels in the succeeding 25 years. I've read all his published work to date and it remains enjoyable though engaging in highly repetitive sex and society set pieces.

Chuck Chandler is a middle-aged tennis pro with a yen for the ladies. Once, at Wimbledon many years ago, he choked at the vital moment and lost what could have been a career-making match. Now, living on his boat, he is the new coach at a club on Key West‘and into his life comes Clare Carras, a gorgeous woman married to a mysterious, wealthy husband apparently unconcerned about her wandering eye. In no time, she and Chuck are between the sheets, but when husband Harry drowns in a highly suspicious diving accident, she makes sure it is Chuck who is the immediate suspect. Only a new member of the Key West force, a former New York cop called Tommy Sculley, believes Chuck didn't do it, but his skeptical chief demands a fast arrest. There are several killings, a tense boat chase and a series of sudden switches before a denouement.

Started out a little slow. There was a lot of tennis references that threw me off, but it got better and was a great plot with a very interesting ending.

Page turner, good mystery, and great setting of Key West

Great mystery, and page turner. Plot had a lot of twists. One of Mr. Woods’ better books. I find his standalone books are more tightly plotted than the Stone Barrington books.

Thriller policiaco con final impredecible pero no inesperado. Los personajes tienen actitudes a veces simples que hacen suponer el desenlace final aunque no la persona.