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Alan Saxon, pro golfer and amateur sleuth, has hit rock bottom. After a disastrous season on the golf circuit, he is hounded by his bank, harassed by his ex-wife and on the verge of losing his current girlfriend. So when his friend and fellow pro golfer, Zuke Everett, invites him to trade another dreary English winter for a tournament at the posh new Golden Haze Golf Club in sunny California, he leaps at the chance.
However, Saxon soon finds himself enmeshed in a tenacious web of violence and intrigue as he attempts to find his friend's killer and free himself from suspicion. Beatings, betrayal and police badgering are par for this, the most treacherous course of Saxon's life.
Double Eagle, Miles' second Saxon mystery, with its clever plotting, humor and breathless suspense, will delight readers--whether they golf or not.

From Publishers Weekly

Miles has come up with an offbeat, reluctant detective for his murder mystery: Alan Saxon knows about police work because his father was a cop in England. Saxon is an English golf pro, down on his luck when he is asked to play in the Tournament of Champions in California by golf buddy Zuke Everett. The tournament is being held to inaugurate a new golf course, Golden Haze, owned by the shark-like tycoon Rutherford Kallgren. Though he hates cops on principle, Saxon becomes determined to discover who murdered his pal Zuke. Suspects abound, and his investigation leads him back to Zuke's first wife, a clash with Zuke's movie-star second spouse, and various rich, powerful and talented people in the L. A. golfing world. Then someone tries to kill Saxon, and the cops begin to wonder if he, not Everett, was the intended victim. This enjoyable romp should entertain mystery and golfing fans alike and keep the reader guessing right to the end.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Like De Larrabeiti, Miles places a shallow, callow Britisher in garish California. Once-famous golfer Alan Saxon has fallen on hard times: nasty ex-wife, overdrawn bank account, fractious girlfriend. When invited to the inauguration of the Golden Haze Golf Club, his spirits riseuntil the murder of his golf-pro best friend. Saxon strikes out on his own to find the culprit but finally needs police help. Feeble plot, flimsy characters, and sodden narrative do not a gripping entertainment make. REK
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.