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Stone Barrington’s trip to Europe turns into an international incident in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.
When he’s apprised at the last minute of a mandatory meeting abroad, Stone Barrington rushes off to Europe for a whirlwind tour of business and, of course, pleasure. But from the start the trip seems to be cursed, plagued by suspicious “accidents” and unfortunate events, and some of Stone’s plans go up in flames—literally.
Stone sets out to learn the true source of his curious misfortune and finds that what appeared to be bad luck may, in fact, have been a warning. From the chic streets of Paris to Italy's spectacular Amalfi Coast, Stone is pursued from all sides. But when the tables turn, the hunted may become the hunter...
Stone Barrington’s trip to Europe turns into an international incident in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.
When he’s apprised at the last minute of a mandatory meeting abroad, Stone Barrington rushes off to Europe for a whirlwind tour of business and, of course, pleasure. But from the start the trip seems to be cursed, plagued by suspicious “accidents” and unfortunate events, and some of Stone’s plans go up in flames—literally.
Stone sets out to learn the true source of his curious misfortune and finds that what appeared to be bad luck may, in fact, have been a warning. From the chic streets of Paris to Italy's spectacular Amalfi Coast, Stone is pursued from all sides. But when the tables turn, the hunted may become the hunter...
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    Books by Stuart Woods

    Title Page

    Copyright

    Chapter 1

    Chapter 2

    Chapter 3

    Chapter 4

    Chapter 5

    Chapter 6

    Chapter 7

    Chapter 8

    Chapter 9

    Chapter 10

    Chapter 11

    Chapter 12

    Chapter 13

    Chapter 14

    Chapter 15

    Chapter 16

    Chapter 17

    Chapter 18

    Chapter 19

    Chapter 20

    Chapter 21

    Chapter 22

    Chapter 23

    Chapter 24

    Chapter 25

    Chapter 26

    Chapter 27

    Chapter 28

    Chapter 29

    Chapter 30

    Chapter 31

    Chapter 32

    Chapter 33

    Chapter 34

    Chapter 35

    Chapter 36

    Chapter 37

    Chapter 38

    Chapter 39

    Chapter 40

    Chapter 41

    Chapter 42

    Chapter 43

    Chapter 44

    Chapter 45

    Chapter 46

    Chapter 47

    Chapter 48

    Chapter 49

    Chapter 50

    Chapter 51

    Chapter 52

    Chapter 53

    Chapter 54

    Chapter 55

    Chapter 56

    Chapter 57

    Chapter 58

    Chapter 59

    Chapter 60

    Author’s Note

    1

    Stone Barrington was at dinner at Patroon, a favorite restaurant, with Dino and Viv Bacchetti, his closest friends.

    “Stone,” Viv said, “don’t you sometimes wish you were still a cop?” Stone had spent fourteen years on the NYPD, most of them as a homicide detective with Dino as his partner.

    “Viv,” Stone replied, “with the kindest possible intention, are you out of your fucking mind?”

    Viv burst out laughing.

    Dino looked at him with pity. “He wishes he was still a cop every time I tell him about something the department is investigating.”

    “The only time I wish I were a cop,” Stone said, “is when somebody is double-parked in front of my house and I’m having trouble getting the car out of the garage.”

    “You mean, you want to arrest the driver?” Viv asked.

    “No, I want to shoot him.”

    “Stone thinks the worst crime we have to deal with is double-parking in his block,” Dino pointed out.

    “No, I just think it’s the worst crime within gunshot range of my garage door.”

    “That seems a drastic remedy,” Viv said.

    “Not when you consider that I’d only have to do it once—word would get around, then nobody would double-park in front of my house.”

    “It wouldn’t matter, because you’d be in jail for quite a long time,” Dino said.

    “You mean, you’d have me arrested for shooting a double-parker?” Dino had stayed on the NYPD and was now police commissioner of New York.

    “Of course. You’d get no special treatment.”

    “I didn’t mean I’d kill the guy, just shoot him a little.”

    “Then you’d spend less time in jail. With good behavior you’d be out in seven to ten.”

    “But I still have a badge.”

    “Take a close look at your solid-gold, honorary-detective-first-class badge that was given to you by our former commissioner, now mayor. It’s not engraved with the words ‘Authorized to shoot anybody who annoys him.’”

    “Not even double-parkers who block my garage door?”

    “Especially not them.”

    Stone’s cell phone rang and he looked at the number. “It’s Joan,” he said. “She never calls at this time of night. I’d better get it. Hello?”

    “It’s Joan.”

    “I...

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  • Publisher's Weekly

    July 20, 2015
    Edgar-winner Woods’s appealing 35th Stone Barrington novel (after Naked Greed) takes the peripatetic New York lawyer, playboy, and investor to Rome, where the Arrington Group, of which he is a board member, is planning to build a palatial new hotel. On Stone’s last-minute flight from JFK, he meets Hedy Kiesler, a beautiful artist, with whom he shares an upgrade to first class—and later a bed in Rome. Meanwhile, Leonardo Casselli, a relocated New York Mafia don, makes it clear that the hotel won’t go up peacefully until he gets his share of the action. Stone calls on old friends Dino Bacchetti of the NYPD and Mike Freeman of Strategic Services for aid in his fight with Casselli, who has plenty of goons at his disposal. When Hedy becomes a pawn in the conflict, Stone devises a dangerous plan to infiltrate Casselli’s stronghold on the Amalfi coast. The finale boasts Woods’s customary combination of panache and brio. Agent: Anne Sibbald, Janklow & Nesbit.

  • Kirkus

    August 15, 2015
    A former New York Mafioso who's fled home to Italy kidnaps the latest inamorata of the redoubtable Stone Barrington (Hot Pursuit, 2015, etc.). Big mistake.Stone's flown the Atlantic at an hour's notice, flirting en route with painter Hedy Kiesler, to vote in favor of opening a new Arrington Hotel in Rome. No sooner have the contracts been signed than trouble erupts. The unfinished hotel already standing abandoned on the site is torched; Stone's borrowed car is stolen and set alight as well; he gets several increasingly overt threats encouraging him to go home and forget the deal; and it's clear that they're coming from Leonardo Casselli, the patriarchal mobster who just hates being called Leo. Packing Hedy off from his hotel bed in Rome to another bed in Paris, Stone stays just long enough to read the riot act in response to Casselli's suave luncheon offer of extortionate "protection," threatening him with the extensive resources of Massimo Bertelli's Italian Anti-Mafia Investigative Department; Stone's unfathomably wealthy business partner Marcel duBois; his buddy Mike Freeman's company, Strategic Services; his even closer buddy Commissioner Dino Bacchetti's New York Police Department; and President Katharine Rule Lee, another close personal friend. Then he hastens back to Rome, leaving Hedy in his Paris house, from which she's promptly abducted. Stone soon finds out that Casselli's holding Hedy in an impregnable house on the Amalfi coast; Casselli soon finds out that Stone wasn't kidding about all those connections. Apart from all the big names tossed in to cow Casselli, Woods mostly soft-pedals the usual gratuitous inflation and extraneous subplots, keeping things simple, straightforward, and pleasantly predictable.

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  • Booklist

    September 1, 2015
    Hot on the heels of Naked Greed (2015), Woods' latest potboiler finds Stone Barrington headed to Italy to meet with his French business partner to break ground on another luxurious Arrington hotel. But the Mafia, in the form of thuggish Leonardo Casselli, wants their cut, and when Stone refuses to play ball, he finds himself in danger. Also in jeopardy is Stone's new lady love, Hedy Kiesler, a painter who takes a shine to Stone on the plane to Italy. The CIA decides to use Stone as bait to entrap Casselli, but it's Hedy who finds herself in jeopardy when she's abducted from Stone's house in Paris. Though Hedy's kidnapping provides some suspense, much of it is eroded by Stone's largely passive response and Casselli's complete and utter ineptitude as a villain. The fans who clamor for frequent Stone Barrington adventures will likely be satisfied with the status quo, but lately the series has started to feel like it's treading water.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

  • Library Journal

    May 15, 2015

    Stone Barrington is back--he's a frequent visitor with Woods doing four books a year now--but he's not staying put. Told last minute about a mandatory meeting abroad, he's off to Rome. Last year's Carnal Curiosity was the perennially popular Woods's first No. 1 New York Times best seller. With a 300,000-copy first printing.

    Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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