- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: GP Putnam And Sons; later printing edition (April 15 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0399149821
- ISBN-13: 978-0399149825
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,682,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Woods's new mystery is as sleek and engaging as the upper-class lifestyle of its appealing hero, ex-cop-cum-lawyer-cum-private investigator Stone Barrington. Woods (Blood Orchid) rewards Stone (and readers) by bringing back the beautiful British intelligence agent, code-named Carpenter, who first appeared in The Short Forever, the preceding book in this series. But Carpenter brings Stone more than hot sex and clever dinner conversation-she inadvertently draws him into her life-and-death struggle with one of the world's most efficient and intelligent female assassins, La Biche. While on assignment for lawyer Stone, attempting to photograph an adulterous husband in flagrante delicto, a clumsy assistant gets into trouble and falls into the hands of the NYPD and British Intelligence. Stone's pal and ex-partner from his early days on the NYPD, detective Dino Bacchetti, aids in extricating the assistant, but the incriminating photographs soon involve both men in the hunt for La Biche, who is out to kill Carpenter and avenge an old wrong. Friend and foe alike feed outright lies to Stone and Dino as the chameleonic lady assassin piles body upon body. Woods writes in a dry, witty style that keeps all his characters on a likable keel. The amusing repartee between Stone and Dino is memorably funny. In the end, Stone supplies a surprising dose of morality, and the reader finds that there is more to the story than flesh, flash and derring-do.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Barrington returns to New York, where the philandering husband he's asked to investigate turns up dead.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb!,
By Douglas P. Murphy "Author, The Griffon Trilog... (Charlottesville) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Dirty Work (Hardcover)
Stuart Woods knocks out a winner! I have read several of his books and like them all but prefer the Stone Barrington series which are a combination of detective, mystery, espionage and thriller novels. The plot starts off as a high profile divorce case for a very wealthy woman and quickly extends into an international manhunt as La Biche makes her appearance. The dialogue is entertaining throughout and the plot is full of surprises. Stone is colorful and pleasantly flawed with some bad habits we secretly can enjoy.The Griffon Trilogy: Part I
3.0 out of 5 stars
An Average Read,
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This review is from: Dirty Work (Mass Market Paperback)
If this book is worthy of 4 stars and considered to be very good for its genre, then the murder-mystery genre is surely lacking in creativity, drama, intelligence,and scope of others.While this is not the worst murder-mystery, cop, secret-agent, book I have read, all in the genre have been lack luster. The plot of the book is average. Yet a few of the characters are quite interesting, much more so than the lead character of Stone Barrington, namely his lieutenant friend, and the main antagonist. Character interaction is well done, believeable, and enjoyable. You can truly see Stone interacting with all the characters. I am still looking for a murder-mystery/secret-agent, cloak and dagger book to really peak my interest. From what I have seen these authors are to well known and sell to many copies of books when the books are very poor.
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Dirty Work (Hardcover)
this is the first book featuring stone barrington that I read..and do the pages ever fly by! the book starts off in a totally different place than where it ends up..it's not intitially what it seems...the characters are interesting, the action's great and the dialogue's very beleivable..a great read that I highly recommend.
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