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Fast & loose / Stuart Woods.
"Stone Barrington is enjoying a boating excursion off the Maine coast when a chance encounter leaves him somewhat the worse for wear. Always able to find the silver lining in even the unhappiest circumstances, Stone is pleased to discover that the authors of his misfortune are, in fact, members of a prestigious family who present a unique business opportunity, and who require a man of Stone's skills to overcome a sticky situation of their own. The acquaintance is fortuitous indeed, for as it turns out, Stone and his new friends have an enemy in common. He's the sort of man who prefers force to finesse, and who regards any professional defeat as a personal and intolerable insult. And when Stone's sly cunning collides with his adversary's hair-trigger-temper, the results are sure to be explosive"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780399574191 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0399574204 (mass market paperback)
- Physical Description: 357 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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| Subject: | Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Boats and boating > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Suspense fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Mackenzie Public Library | WOO (Text) | 35192000336853 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Alert Bay Public Library | AF WOO (Text) | 35125000122923 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Beaver Valley Public Library | F WOO (Text) | 35144000167721 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bren Del Win Centennial Library | F Woods (Text) | 36320000319541 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Burns Lake Public Library | AF WOO (Text) | 35198000617564 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC WOO (Text) | 35146002025781 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Creston Public Library | FIC WOO (Text)
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35140100024234 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Elkford Public Library | FC WOO (Text) | 35170000414912 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort Nelson Public Library | FIC WOO (Text) | 35246000897536 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fraser Lake Public Library | AFHC MYS WOO (Text) | 35195000268265 | Main Floor - Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2017 June #1
When a Swedish doctor and his beautiful daughter slam into Stone Barrington's yacht, not only do they nurse Stone back to health, but they happen to have another, even nicer yacht they can offer in exchange. Such is the charmed life of lawyer-turned-cop-turned-lawyer-turned-multimillionaire Barrington. Then, in helping his new friends, the Carlssons, save their clinics from a buyout from St. Clair Enterprises, Barrington gets on the wrong side of a sociopathic former CIA operative. After St. Clair's founder was murdered in an explosion, his right-hand man, Erich Macher, a really bad guy, took the reins. Macher does not like losing and goes after Barrington, the Carlssons, and anyone else who gets in his way. Barrington and his wealthy friends, however, emerge from every encounter with nary a scratch. In Barrington, Woods has created a rich man who could walk through the needle's eye into heaven and then have St. Peter waiting for him with Stone's favorite drink on the bar. Pure fantasy, to be sure, but a thoroughly entertaining escapist read. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2017 March #2
A survivor of TV pitchman Nelson Knott's ruinous presidential campaign (Below the Belt, 2017) declares war on New York attorney Stone Barrington, not realizing that in addition to being smart, tough, well-heeled, well-connected, and well-groomed, Stone is immortal.When a well-placed bomb sent Christian St. Clair, the power behind Knott, to his reward, his lieutenant, Erik Macher, appointed himself his successor. Ensconced in the catbird seat of St. Clair Enterprises, he's got it made until the bigger, newer yacht owned by Dr. Paul Carlsson, of the Carlsson Clinic, rams Stone's lesser yacht in the fog, sending it to Davy Jones' locker. Pulled from Penobscot Bay, Stone gets on so well with his rammer's daughter, Marisa Carlssonâshe being Swedish and all in her attitude toward sexâthat soon after her father replaces Stone's craft with something even better, she tells him, "I should ask our crew to run down yachts more often." Amid all the champagne toasts, the Carlss ons ask Stone's help in fending off a hostile takeover by St. Clair Enterprises, and the battle is joined. Stone the peerless negotiator fights off the takeover bid; Stone the networker makes common cause with ex-CIA agent Charley Fox, who thinks he should have been appointed to take St. Clair's place; Stone the lucky survives three separate attempts on his life (the head of the local NYPD bomb squad tells him, "You're becoming our best customer, you know"); Stone the supremely confident never even wonders what's going to become of Erik Macher and his minions. Neither does the reader. Finally, a tale that answers that question of why Woods' bestselling thrillers are so unthrilling: because the characters you care about are never in danger for long enough to mix a proper martini. The unusual aptness of this installment's title is presumably unintended. Copyright Kirkus 2017 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 November #2
This is the second of four Stone Barrington novels coming your way in 2017, following January's
Copyright 2016 Library Journal.Venus Flytrap . No plot details yet, but with over 1.2 million Woods novels sold in 2015, it probably doesn't matter. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2017 February #4
Stone Barrington survives a number of close calls, starting with a collision between his yacht and another, larger boat in Maine's foggy Penobscot Bay, in Edgar-winner Woods's enjoyable 41st novel starring the successful New York City attorney (after
Copyright 2017 Publishers Weekly.Below the Belt ). Fortunately, this accident results in Stone's becoming friends with the other boat's owners, a family of doctors named Carlsson, of the Carlsson Clinic, "a famous hospital, with locations in several cities, like the Mayo Clinic." Stone ends up helping the Carlssons thwart a takeover of their clinic, thereby antagonizing the schemer behind the takeover attempt, Erik Macher. The ruthless, hot-headed Macher and his henchmen try to blow up Stone with plastic explosives they've managed to hide in the lawyer's Manhattan townhouse, but the timely intervention of a bomb-sniffing dog saves the day. A series of tit-for-tat exchanges leads to an exciting showdown between Macher and Stone at a Virginia farmhouse. Series fans will be pleased to learn that a major career change looms for Stone in his next outing. Agent: Anne Sibbald, Janklow & Nesbit. (Apr.)
