Dirty Work (Stone Barrington)
by Stuart Woods

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Book Review: Studly Stone is Back!
Summary: 4 Stars

Stone wrote a prenuptial agreement for the very rich Elena Marks a year ago. In it, her soon to be husband Lawrence Fortescue forfeited all rights and claims to her money if he committed adultery. Elena is convinced that he is and wants proof that will stand up in divorce court in New York so that she can enforce the prenup. Bill Eggers wants Stone to make it happen and wants it done fast with a minimum of fuss and does not want to know anything as to how it was accomplished.

It has been years since Stone had to have this sort of thing done and soon has ample cause to regret hiring the nephew of a friend to be the photographer. Lawrence is dead, the photographer is arrested for murder, the client as well as the law firm are very annoyed, and agents of British Intelligence as well as elite female assassin are also involved and unhappy. The female assassin believes that the resulting public fiasco has compromised her anonymity and blames Stone, making him a target.

This novel is slightly above the usual Stone Barrington fare. While Stone is his usual super studly self in relation to the ladies as he dashes here and there among the other shallow characters working the case, he does ask the occasional hard moral question. A recurring theme seems to be what is the moral responsibility of those that act out a nation's foreign policy harming and even killing innocents and guilty alike? Other questions are also raised, but those moments are brief and with no easy answers, easily swept aside by Stuart Woods.

The reader is left with the usual Stone Barrington novel. Stone is loved by all the women of the world and loved very well in often very graphic fashion throughout the book. Always admired and respected by men, enemies or friends, his advice is sought after and always of wise counsel. Throughout it all, without a hair out of place or a line in his very expensive suit, he has a smashingly good time (except for the very brief moral outrage parts). In the end, as before in his other novels, he is James Bond without all the high-tech toys, but with Dino always at his side to provide legal authority at the point of a police officer's service weapon, he does not need the gadgets. Another pure escapist read and as such, which does not pretend to be anything else, it is good stuff.

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• Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery
• Thrillers > Suspense