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Dirty Work by Stuart Woods Putnam, April, 2003. Hardcover, 322 pages. ISBN: 0399149821 Ordering information: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk 
Dapper attorney Stone Barrington hates divorce cases --
they really are the dirty work of the legal profession.
Bill Eggers of Woodman and Weld asks Stone
to catch a client's husband in a compromising position.
Stone is of counsel at Woodman
and Weld, who sends Stone quite a bit of work, so he reluctantly
agrees. But the photographer that Stone hires to catch the husband
in the act sees the husband get murdered by a beautiful woman -- and
then promptly falls through the skylight right into the middle of
the murder scene. The killer turns out to be a world class
assassin, Marie-Therese duBois, also known as La Biche. Stone's
squeeze from the last book, The Short Forever, British agent
Carpenter, arrives in town also looking for duBois, and -- with the
help of local police detective Dino Bachetti -- the chase is on
to find a killer.
Stone Barrington is as intelligent as he is suave -- he's never at a loss for words or falls apart in a crisis. He needs his sang-froid in this adventure, because the assassin Marie Therese DuBois is very good at her job. Barrington and Bachetti are a great team, and their dialogue is quite funny. The pacing is fast and the addition of British agent Carpenter is a definite plus. The ever-talented Stuart Woods just keeps turning out immensely entertaining books, and his latest is no exception. Reprinted with permission from The Internet Writing Journal®. Copyright © 1997-2011 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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