Easley Blackwood is famous, and justifiably so. But his book on opening leads just doesn't cut it. It will teach you two major lessons about opening leads. First, when your world-class opponents use strange and often archaic bidding methods to arrive at difficult contracts that will make against poor defense, you should make the opening lead that will work the best. And second, classic methods (fourth best, top of a sequence, etc.) are good because they give information to your partner, while modern innovations are bad because they give information to the declarer.

There are some interesting tidbits, but only a true masochist would attempt to learn much about opening leads from this book. On the other hand, if you like reading about interesting hands that were played in world championships twenty to forty years ago, and if you're into name-dropping, I can wholeheratedly recommend Blackwood's effort.

Anyone who needs a recommendation on what to get instead, feel free to ask.

The most complete book ever written on opening leads.