Synopses & Reviews
In The Short Forever, the unflappable Stone Barrington comes face to face with two men whose lives are wrapped in shadows and lies-and who both still feel a sting of betrayal they can never forget.
Stone's new client, John Bartholomew, asks him to fly to London in search of a young woman whom he suspects has taken up with a mysterious character. Bartholomew asks Stone to see what he can find to discredit the man, Cabot, which seems a simple enough task, and Stone is eager to spend time in London and with his friend Sarah Buckminster. What Stone finds is more bizarre than he had expected. The woman in question isn't related to Bartholomew in quite the way he had implied. And it appears that Bartholomew and Cabot, who once worked together on a secretive assignment, now have very different versions of what went wrong. When Stone himself is implicated in a shocking double murder, he and his partner, Dino, know they have stepped into a strange case unlike any other.
Review
"Filling his story with enough twists and turns to dizzy even the most seasoned reader, Woods keeps the tension high until the last page." Booklist
Synopsis
The unflappable cop-turned-investigator, Stone Barrington, returns in his eighth adventure as he uncovers the puzzling--and deadly--rivalry between two American spies.
About the Author
Stuart Woods, who has written twenty-two novels, was recently awarded Frances Prix de Literature Policiere for Imperfect Strangers. He currently resides in Florida, New York City and Maine, with his wife, Chris Connor Woods, also a writer.