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Good Stone Barrington book.

Another great Stone Barrington novel. I really enjoy this character. Stone Barrington is, once again, right at home in NYC. But this time he's joined by the tenacious Holly Barker-the lady police chief of Orchid Beach. She has come to NYC hot on the trail of a fugitive from justice....

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Stone Barrington is, once again, right at home in New York City. But this time he's joined by the tenacious Holly Barker-the lady police chief of Orchid Beach, Florida. She's come to Manhattan hot on the trail of a fugitive from her jurisdiction. And Stone is, well, glad to see her, right up until the moment when her presence creates a danger to both of them-and to their surprise, she becomes the pursued instead of the pursuer.
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It's double the pleasure and double the fun as Woods brings series character Holly Barker, chief of the Orchid Beach, Fla., police department (of Orchid Blues, etc.), onstage to co-star with PI Stone Barrington (of Dirty Work, etc.) in his latest adventure. Holly's come to New York hot on the trail of Trini Rodriguez, a bad guy she thought she'd stabbed to death in an earlier adventure. He's currently wanted for (among other things) blowing up a dozen people by hiding bombs in the caskets of two of his earlier victims and detonating them at the funeral. But finding him won't be so simple: he's been placed in the FBI Witness Protection Program and is working with the Feds and the CIA to catch an Arab terrorist group trying to employ the Mafia in a money-laundering scheme. Shortly after Holly takes up residence in Stone's guest room, the two of them are hip deep in the dangerous caseâ€"and likewise each other. They go at it so often it's hard to say what's going to kill Stone first: the Mafia, Arab terrorists or the athletic, all-night sex. Cross-pollinating all these characters from various books makes for some heavy-handed background exposition at times, but readers with no previous experience will still enjoy this amusing, full-throttle sex and crime romp. Stone's ex-partner and best pal, Dino Bachetti, head of the detective squad at the 19th precinct, sums up Stone's appeal, and that of the entire series, when he says of his friend: "Wherever you go, people drop dead, and women take off their underwear." That's it in a nutshell.

Stone Barrington and Holly Barker both in this one.

This is a Stone Barrington novel, fast-paced with a good plot and sharp dialogue. Stuart Woods writes wsith authority.

Another great Stuart Woods read!

Woods' stories are always intersting and this book is no exception.

Cop-turned lawyer tracks down a mobster hiding deep within the witness protection program with a little help from a beautiful Florida police chief.

I enjoyed all of this series of books.