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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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    Chronic City

    Jonathan Lethem

Hot Mahogany

by Stuart Woods

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ISBN13: 9780399155154
ISBN10: 0399155155
Condition: Standard
Dustjacket: Standard
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One night at Elaineas, Stone Barringtonaback in Manhattan after chasing down the bad guys in the Caribbeanameets Barton Cabot, older brother of his sometime ally, CIA boss Lance Cabot. Bartonas career in army intelligence is even more top secret than his brotheras, but heas suffering from amnesia following a random act of violence. Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose memory is chockfull of state secrets, so Lance hires Stone to watch Bartonas back. As Stone discovers, Barton is a spy with a rather unusual hobby: building and restoring antique furniture. The genteel world of antiques and coin dealers at first seems a far cry from Stoneas usual underworld of mobsters, murderers, and spies. But Barton also is a man with a past, and one event in particulara in the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty years earliera is coming back to haunt his present in ways head never expected. Stone soon finds out that Barton, and some shady characters of his acquaintance, may be hiding a lot more than just a few forged antiques.

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"Edgar-winner Woods's 15th Stone Barrington novel (after Shoot Him if He Runs) finds the familiar cast of characters up to their usual antics: dining at Elaine's, drinking expensive liquor and having fantastic sex. Stone's pal CIA deputy director for operations, Lance Cabot, asks Stone to watch over his brother, Barton Cabot, who's recovering from injuries, amnesia chief among them, after being beaten and robbed. Barton, who builds and sells reproduction antiques, lives in Connecticut, as luck would have it, near a cottage Stone owns. The plot centers on a missing 18th-century mahogany secretary, which is worth in the neighborhood of $24 million, and the theft of hundreds of gold coins from the South Vietnamese government when Barton was commanding a regiment there during the Vietnam War. As always, Stone gets to bed several new beautiful women in the course of pursuing the case. Series fans will find all their expectations nicely fulfilled. Author tour. (Sept.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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Stone Barrington is hired to protect Barton Cabot, an army intelligence officer suffering from amnesia following a random act of violence. Barton is a man with a past, and one event in particular--in the jungles of Vietnam--is coming back to haunt his present in ways he'd never expected.

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Stone Barrington is hired to protect a former army intelligence officer suffering from amnesia. Barton Cabot is a man with a past, and what he's forgotten is something some will kill for. Available in a tall Premium Edition.

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lupoman, December 31, 2008 (view all comments by lupoman)
I picked up this book between recommendations, and it was a quick satisfying read. The author has written close to 40 novels and his writing style is very readable. I loved the story and how the main character, Stone Barrington, seems to be "busy" at all times, but still has time to solve a mystery. four stars
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780399155154
Author:
Woods, Stuart
Publisher:
Putnam Adult
Subject:
Private investigators
Subject:
Barrington, stone (fictitious character)
Subject:
Thrillers
Subject:
Children s 12-Up - Fiction - Espionage
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Publication Date:
October 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
293
Dimensions:
930x636x104 107

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