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Shakeup

(Stone Barrington #55)

Stuart Woods

3.81 · Rating details · 2,339 ratings · 184 reviews

Stone Barrington must track down an enemy intent on disturbing law and order in the latest action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author

Upon returning from a dangerous coastal adventure, Stone Barrington is looking forward to some normalcy with the leading lady in his life. But when a grisly crime arrives on his doorstep, along with some suspicious n ...more

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Jan 06, 2021 Tim rated it it was ok

The only reason this gets two stars is the ending was half decent. 4 of 10 stars

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Oct 26, 2020 Peg Voth rated it it was ok · review of another edition

a very light plot, too many sexual encounters and a rushed ending. Why do I keep reading this series>

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Nov 06, 2020 Kay rated it liked it

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Poor Stone. To meet the President for some quick weekend "romance" seems to be a major logistic nightmare now. I think Stone needs a looong runway on his property so Air Force One can land? Oh dear...🤣

Pretty ridiculous as always. Going to give an extra star for making me laugh. ...more

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Jan 16, 2021 Skip rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-detective

Returning from Holly Barker's inauguration afterparties with Dino and Viv Bachetti, Stone finds the dead body of Patricia Clark in his hotel room. She is the incoming secretary of commerce Donald Clark's wife. She is in the midst of a contentious divorce with her husband, a philanderer, including multiparty trysts with the D.C. chief of police, Little Debby. Holly soon dismisses Donald from her cabinet. Almost immediately upon leaving Holly's embraces, Stone hooks up with an actress preparing fo ...more

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Nov 09, 2020 Mark rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: police-pi-mystery, political-thriller

You know, comparing the Stuart Woods' early stuff to these later stories really highlights the move from excellent, almost artistic reads, to churning out pulp...But, I'm hooked, almost like a soap opera, into the Stone Barrington universe...They ARE a "Guilty Pleasure"...Don't tell!!!...After attending Holly Barker's inauguration, Stone returns to his suite at the infamous Hay-Adams hotel to find a dead woman in his suite...This is just the beginning of a series of suspicious deaths that must t ...more

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Nov 22, 2020 Donna Hines rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: library-holds, borrowed-library-books

Two women fall prey to one man and they're not just your ordinary women- as both hold highly prestigious and lucrative positions.
A precarious bind is one thing but utterly sexually craved lune who runs naked throughout the home is another..and neither fulfills the thriller genre quite like a man lusting after both women.
What on Earth is the point of a burglary that withdraws nothing but stirs up some wild emotions?
Sure paintings are precious, surely the lifestyles of the rich and famous is addre ...more

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Nov 10, 2020 rebecca O. webber rated it did not like it

The same old stuff. The last book was better because there were less sexual encounters, but Woods seemed to think he needed to make up for that in this book. It makes the plot weak because it never adds to the mystery or tension. It had a rushed ending, so my boredom ended quickly.

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Nov 10, 2020 Nurse Lisa In Ohio (PRN Book Reviews) rated it liked it

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I have so many opinions about how boring this series has become. “Sexcapades of Stone” - zzzzzzzzz. I’m giving it one more then retiring from this cast of characters, despite them being so likable. No. Plot.

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Jan 03, 2021 Alan rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Ho hum. The author I love to hate.

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Jan 17, 2021 Richard Guerrero rated it liked it

I am being very generous by giving it a three. Someone else had mentioned how they’re addicted to it, I have to say that I am the same way. I have read every book in this series and love the first quarter or almost half of it. Now like they mention it’s like a soap opera addiction. I really feel that the author messed up the character of Holly Barker. I wish she would’ve kept her own series. She was much more serious of a character when she was on her own. I mentioned this on one of the previous ...more

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Nov 09, 2020 David Gerstenfeld rated it it was ok

The library lists the book under mystery/thriller. It should be listed under Fantasy! It's a silly, disjointed book with Stone having sex almost every night with a different powerful woman, etc. Rather boring. Most of it made me laugh.
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Nov 24, 2020 Will rated it really liked it

Shelves: political-intrigue, mystery, police-thriller, romance

SUBJECTIVE READER REVIEW WITH PLOT SPOILERS FOLLOWS:

Holly Barker's inaugurated and the shakeups immediately begin. Commerce Sec Designate holds an Inaugural Ball at his mansion even though his wife died that morning, and Patricia Clark was just the first of six victims tied to the multiple sexual partners of DCPD Chief of Police Deborah 'Little Debby' Myers. She's tough to finger as a suspect though, as her Security Detail cum lover of need Rocco 'Valentino' Turko is offing all the threats for SUBJECTIVE READER REVIEW WITH PLOT SPOILERS FOLLOWS:

Holly Barker's inaugurated and the shakeups immediately begin. Commerce Sec Designate holds an Inaugural Ball at his mansion even though his wife died that morning, and Patricia Clark was just the first of six victims tied to the multiple sexual partners of DCPD Chief of Police Deborah 'Little Debby' Myers. She's tough to finger as a suspect though, as her Security Detail cum lover of need Rocco 'Valentino' Turko is offing all the threats for her. It all comes to an end when one of them sings like the bird, but I ain't telling ya who.

So Holly's now Chief Executive and must be circumspect about her behavior, especially as it relates to sex. She and Stone have this unwritten commitment to one another, but she's seldom available. If I had to guess, I'd say Stephen Stills was one of Woods' favorites back in the day, because 'Shakeup' is like the movie version of the song, 'Love the One You're With.' As in, 'if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.' Now these meaningful overnight relationships are taking place in and among the narrow windows of opportunity Holly has for a spot of heavy breathing. But Lara Parks, female lead in a new Centurion movie, makes a coast to coast dalliance before Stone has to ship her back to LA 1st Class as Holly's headed in.

Talk about pity, Holly takes pity on Stone by sending in the very hot and big busted FBI Deputy Director for Criminal Investigations Maren Gustav to chase down the Little Debby murders in New York, and she and Stone take all of three hours to ravage each other on demand. The only one that seemed to get to Holly was the trip to Windward Hall in Hampshire, England, where she knew Dame Felicity Devonshire would be sharpening her incisors in anticipation. All things considered, you gotta wonder if Stone can fend off three new lovers per month and not become enthralled with at least one!

In all fairness, at least Stone's discrete enough to have sex one on one. The only thing in this book more nefarious than Stone's malleable morals is the pure open sex menu Little Debby Myers lives. Man, there's a price to pay for easy money, as six of Debby's former bed mates are murdered before the final page of 'Shakeup.' Get this book, enjoy the brain candy, and get ready for your next serious read. You'll enjoy it, I always do. ...more

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Nov 17, 2020 Ed rated it really liked it

Shelves: law-enforcement, thriller, nyc

#55 in the Stone Barrington series. This series entry by author Stuart Woods is another in his line of jet setting, bed hopping , derring-do by the rich lawyer protagonist. L.A., England and several trips to Washington, D.C. serve to vary the background. Meanwhile Stone outdoes himself by bedding a Hollywood actress just signed to star in a major motion picture, the newly elected President of the U.S., the newly appointed Director of the FBI, and the head of England's M.I.6. As always this was a ...more

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Jan 10, 2021 Stephanie Wood rated it liked it

Stuart Woods books should be read in order because there is so much we have learned about the characters over the years. I feel.like I know them, and many routinely show up from one book to the next. Stone is not remotely believable, but I keep coming back. The excess sex with a multitude of partners is just silly, but whatever. Dialogue is great, and Woods has a superior grasp of the English language. I love the dry wit. I only give it 3 stars because the sex is just too much to believe, but hu ...more

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Nov 03, 2020 Bill Huffman rated it really liked it

Shelves: z2020, mystery

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.

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Nov 02, 2020 Sallie Wood rated it it was amazing

Great book

Great book. Great story and characters. I find it amazing there is all this trouble around Stone and never gets seriously hurt.

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Nov 14, 2020 Allan McLeod rated it it was ok

Murder, sex, and betrayal served with caviar, fine wine, and the power and grace of the rich and famous. In terms of structure, easy entertainment, quite tame, reminiscent of a JC Fletcher tale.

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Dec 27, 2020 Rick rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This episode was uncomplicated, smooth, and advanced Holly as President of the US with Stone at her side.

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Feb 03, 2021 Ron rated it liked it

55 books and the same storyline... but if they sell, why change it. Difficult to top hopping into bed with the president of the USA, the FBI Director, the head of Britain's M16 & a movie star all in just a couple of chapters. ...more

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Nov 03, 2020 Sherrie Howey rated it liked it · review of another edition

The books begins with the inauguration of Holly as the second female president and when Stone returns to his hotel suite, he finds the body of a dead woman; the wife of a soon to be cabinet member. As is typical in this series, there is plenty of drama and women with which Stone can get involved, and pursuit of the killer.
This is a quick and easy read and Stone Barrington fans will enjoy this book.

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Dec 24, 2020 Pete rated it really liked it

I have read all 55 Stone Barrington novels.
This was not one of best. The author did introduce a new character into the series, hopefully that will enhance the series going forward.

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Oct 30, 2020 Cybercrone rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Good mystery, but overloaded with tarts.
The ending just kind of fizzled suddenly too, which is a drag.

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Nov 28, 2020 Anne, Unfinished Woman rated it it was ok

Shelves: genre-fiction, source-library, author-american, mystery-crime-police-procedural, series-trilogy, suspense-thriller, murder, setting-ny-city

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. BARRINGTON SEXCAPADES...SPOILER ALERT

Stone Barrington confined himself to sleeping with just one woman, Holly Barker, POTUS-elect in the last novel, and that strained him greatly...so he catches up in this one. This is a showcase of how to juggle women, including POTUS. Before his life can proceed, however, he must be POTUS' date for the inaugural balls, and be filmed as he waltzes with Holly at each of the four venues. POOR STONE, his picture waltzing appears on social media and in "People" mag BARRINGTON SEXCAPADES...SPOILER ALERT

Stone Barrington confined himself to sleeping with just one woman, Holly Barker, POTUS-elect in the last novel, and that strained him greatly...so he catches up in this one. This is a showcase of how to juggle women, including POTUS. Before his life can proceed, however, he must be POTUS' date for the inaugural balls, and be filmed as he waltzes with Holly at each of the four venues. POOR STONE, his picture waltzing appears on social media and in "People" magazine. He eschews the publicity. Now, I couldn't seem to reconcile why they didn't just let it be known that Stone was POTUS' boyfriend. She's single; he's single. Then I had an AHA, POTUS cannot have a boyfriend that takes advantage of screwing any eligible women with whom he comes into contact. And we all know that he is incapable of going without, without getting techy. And he is techy as he and Holly have acknowledged that they cannot have sex in Washington, too may eyes watching, which is where they are before he heads for LA.

Just as a slight issue arises the evening of the balls, Stone and the Bacchettis return to Stone room at the Hay-Adams to find a dead body. Though Chief Debby Myers, the head of the investigation would like to pin it on Stone, pictures of his attending the swearing-in and balls provide him with a inviolate alibi. Through this Stone is coy, not providing the name of his alibi, POTUS, and Dino gives her the bad news. "Little Debby" will prove to be center of the slight plot of this book. She sleeps around, with multiple partners at a time, and she is ready to get rid of some of them. She has a "toady" in Dean Casey, a DCPD cop, and a detective that is her lover and also her killer, Detective Rocco Turko, aka "Valentino" because he is so handsome, who will proceed to take out a number of people in this book: Patricia Clark (Debby tries to pin it on Patricia's husband Donald), Deana Carlyle Art Jacoby's girlfriend, Frank Capriani, an NYPD cop protecting DCPD cop Art Jacoby, who Little Debby has targeted, and finally Eddie Craft and Shelley Moss, Eddie witnesses Debby taking a silenced gun from the Evidence Locker. Donald Clark was to be the Secretary of Commerce for POTUS, but this scandal just won't do. So he is fired before he is even confirmed. Donald Clark is taken out later by assassin Ma Barker while at the federal courthouse, planning to provide the Grand Jury with information against Little Debby. They do finally catch Rocco and he turns on Debby. But the real theme here is Stone's love life. He and Dino have multiple conversations about how Stone is going to go about having sex with POTUS without the world finding out about it: where, transportation, when, which of his houses, Camp David...and all the reasons why it will not work as nauseum. POTUS even gets a Ralph Lauren assistant to design a burka to use as a disguise. Another disguise either, doesn't work...she is immediately recognized at the restaurant, you know one of those named-dropped outrageously expensive places where Stone is well known to the owner/chefs. He knows and dines at Wolfgang Puck's in LA.

Bill Eggers, a partner in the legal firm Woodman and Weld gets Stone to fly him for a meeting in California, where he wants Stone to intimidate a potential business associate. Stone just stares at the man during the meeting and then Stone heads for his house on the property of the Arrington Hotel, and within less than an hour has gone to his private swimming pool, which has a strange woman trespassing. He whips off his swimming suit (she has already taken hers off) and they proceed to get it on. Now the difficulties begin for poor Stone...Holly calls to say she is coming to LA. So Stone kicks Lara Parks out (a budding actress auditioning for and getting a part in his son's new film) who has moved into his house, back to Santa Monica, and has his service quickly erase anything showing she was there. Holly comes to spend the night. When Stone and Bill plan to return to New York, he calls Lara back and invites her to come with him.

YOU GUESSED IT! Shortly after they settle to have sex, eat, have sex, shower, have sex (at least that is one scene)...Holly calls to say she is coming there. Using the slight problem of accused possible clients: DCPD policeman Jacoby as an excuse, he sends Lara back to California. I hope she has learned her lesson, though she does get some clothes out of the interlude. Now as part of the investigation into the murder of the girlfriend, it is determined that she worked for Justice and therefore, the FBI can intercede. Again...we have predictable. The woman who Holly sends...POTUS as pimp?...knowing full well Stone will sleep with her, is none other than Mauren Gustav, Deputy Director of Criminal Investigations, who will become the Director, when Director John Henry Shaker complains to POTUS about her going over his head to send Mauren, who he hates, and she fires him also. Holly is in fine presidential flair. Mauren isn't in Stone's office even an hour when she proposes to give him a blow job. He questions whether she is serious, and she assures him it is just what she is after and she gets down on her knees. Seriously?! When Dino shows up just as they are finishing he smells something odd. But Stone and Mauren merely straighten their clothes.

Now as a coincidence, Eddie Craft and his wife head for England, to escape possible assassination, and end up staying with Alfie Bing, a successful thief. He proposes a heist of paintings from a country estate...YOU GUESSED IT...Windward Hall, Stone's estate. They do a dry run at his London home which has the same security. It alerts Dame Felicity Devonshire, MI6, and she calls Stone. He jumps in his Gulfstream 500 and hotfoots it to the estate. But when the burglars decide to go ahead with the heist even with Stone is residence, Stone gets the drop on them only to have them cosh him. The keystone-cops-like burglars fall over each other in the process and Alfie shoots himself in the leg with the dart intended for Stone, and he has to be carried out by Eddie. Eddie screws up the exchange of real for forged and puts Stone's mother's paintings back in the wrong order. Stone thinks they may be forgeries, but they are not. Eddie's bad. So Alfie and his wife are killed for trying to put one over on the guy who had commissioned the heist. But it's a minoe problem as Stone gets to sleep with Felicity, a long-standing lover. That's number four in the sexcapades... which is more like a normal Stone Barrington novel.

This is once again an opportunity to create a story that is every man's wet dream, the story of musical beds. It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "a girl in every port". There is first sex over and over again, and not safe sex...no mention is ever made to safety (which I have may have mentioned once or twice before). One of these days Stone is going to get a raging STD, though the reader will never know. This is the land of the wealthy and unethical, and the toys of the wealthy (Rolex, Bentleys, Gulfstreams, bespoke suits), and the restaurants (Patroon, Caravaggio, Spago) of the wealthy, and the stores where the wealthy shop (Turnbull and Asher, etc.), and derisive comments about those who are not wealthy or sophisticated, like Art Jacoby who Stone pities because he is an adult who has never traveled to New York City. It's about the lifestyle of one who has more money than he needs: a beautiful four-story home in mid-Manhattan, cook and factotum in residence, an armored Bentley, Gulfstream, multiple homes worldwide... It is that predictable tale of who one knows that can get what one wants simply by having the money to pay for it, and knowing how much to tip, to keep it coming. I cannot reconcile in my mind whether these stories are fairy-tales or satires. Perhaps a little of both. This was no doubt one of the most ridiculous pictures of the superficial life of Stone Barrington. He whines consistently about the problem of connecting for sex with Holly, until Viv lets him and Dino know how disgusting it is that he is cheating on POTUS. Stone then reminds her that he and Holly have an agreement to enjoy other connections as needed. Bear in mind that having described the difficulties of Holly surreptitiously getting to Stone, we know that she is not sleeping with anyone else.

Another quickie sexcapade. ...more

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Dec 07, 2020 Jerrie rated it did not like it · review of another edition

First I will say I love reading a Stuart Woods book because of the perfect grammar, and the words just flow off the page like silk. And of course, we are delighted to see Holly sworn in as president of the United States. BUT, he has now completely lost all touch with reality and has fallen into complete insanity of his sexual fantasy life. He is having sexual encounters with four women, two of them within minutes of meeting them, day after day here, sometimes more than one of them in the same da ...more

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Jan 03, 2021 Roberta Eagleston added it

This is the first and last Stone Barrington book I will read.
I would call it comedy, not mystery. Perhaps Stuart Woods, I’ll give him a pass if this was all tongue in cheek, but if not my review is scathing to say the least.

This Stone character can not seem to go one day without sex with any woman he meets.
The women are from another planet or I’ve missed something, female President of the US does very little except find ways to have sex with Stone. If she can’t then she provides a woman for him, ...more

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Nov 29, 2020 Dad rated it liked it

This year, I am working on not over rating my reviews so I give this one three stars...not the four I might have done last year just because... Stone books started out as really enjoyable stories about a top notch attorney who happened to be a former cop and skilled woodworker whose best friend and former cop partner is now the police commissioner on NYC. These fun and thoroughly entertaining novels have evolved into totally light weight beach novels leaving one to wonder if it was really worth ...more

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Nov 02, 2020 Bookreporter.com Mystery & Thriller rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

SHAKEUP is the 55th escapade in Stuart Woods’ long-running and popular series. Stone Barrington is a super-rich New York white-shoe attorney who has high connections, from the president of the United States to celebrities and other wealthy, well-known individuals. The book opens with Stone in Washington, D.C. getting ready to attend the inauguration of his “main squeeze,” Holly Barker, as the second woman to be elected commander-in-chief.

Stone is sitting with two of his closest friends: Dino Bac SHAKEUP is the 55th escapade in Stuart Woods’ long-running and popular series. Stone Barrington is a super-rich New York white-shoe attorney who has high connections, from the president of the United States to celebrities and other wealthy, well-known individuals. The book opens with Stone in Washington, D.C. getting ready to attend the inauguration of his “main squeeze,” Holly Barker, as the second woman to be elected commander-in-chief.

Stone is sitting with two of his closest friends: Dino Bacchetti, the New York police commissioner, and his wife, Viv, the COO of Strategic Services, the world’s second-largest security company. When he goes back to his hotel, he stumbles upon a corpse. Dino stops Stone from calling 911. With his connections, he can help stave off a media frenzy, thus saving their appearances at four presidential balls that evening.

Dino contacts Deborah Myers, chief of the D.C. police department. He explains the circumstances to her, and she takes over. It develops that the victim is Patricia Clark; her husband, Don, is about to be the new Secretary of Commerce. At this point in the story, Stone is a viable suspect, and Myers coldly questions him. But he has an airtight alibi and a photo to prove where he was and at what time. So after jumping to an erroneous conclusion, Myers informs him that he is no longer a suspect.

The eyes of suspicion then shift over to Don, with whom Patricia was going through a contested divorce. After being dismissed from Holly’s cabinet, he arrives in New York seeking assistance in locating the person who killed his wife. However, Stone and Dino are not keen to work the case on behalf of the victim’s husband and are busy with subsequent related murders.

Stone then receives a call from one of his law partners, Bill Eggers, who needs Stone to fly him to California for a meeting. This gives Stone an opportunity to meet a new woman, Lara, an aspiring actress who has an appointment to meet the director of a new movie. Coincidentally, the director happens to be Stone’s son, and his partner is Dino’s son, Ben. Naturally she gets the part.

As the story unfolds and the body count rises, the plot moves swiftly. Fans and newcomers alike will find themselves enjoying the shenanigans that Stuart Woods can always be relied upon to deliver.

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Sep 22, 2020 Steve rated it really liked it

Stone Barrington is attending the inauguration of Holly Barker as the second female president of the United States (they clearly have had an ongoing relationship (sexual of course) that will be challenged with her new role. Between the inauguration and the celebrations later in the day, he returns to his suite at the infamous Hay-Adams hotel to find a dead woman in his suite. She is Patricia Clark, the wife of Donald, who is about to be the Secretary of Commerce. Deb Myers is the head of the DC ...more

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Dec 10, 2020 Jim Welke rated it really liked it

This latest offering from Stuart Woods has Stone Barrington sleeping with the new lady President, the new lady head of the FBI, a leading lady from Hollywood and, of course, his lady friend at MI-6 in England. At the same time, Stone helped solve six murders orchestrated by the lady chief of police in Washington DC and the attempted murder of a DC police officer. After Barrington's long time squeeze, Holly, is inaugurated as President, a lady is killed in his room while he's escorting the new Pr ...more

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Jan 03, 2021 Justin Klinger rated it liked it

I have read every one of these, and I suspect I will continue to read them even if they're not really as good as they used to be.

If you're reading it for an intriguing murder mystery, you're doing yourself a disservice. They're fun little romps, like James Bond light. If that's your thing, read them and root for Stone to get with every girl and topple every foe. If that's not your thing, why are you even looking at book 55 in the series ?

This one was a little weak, so I'm only giving it 3 stars ...more

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Stuart Woods is the author the New York Times-bestselling Stone Barrington series and Holly Barker series. He is an avid private pilot, flying his own jet on book tours. You may see his tour schedule and learn more about the author on his website.