Two Dollar Bill (Stone Barrington)
by Stuart Woods
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Author: Stuart WoodsEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-04
ISBN: 045121319X
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Signet
Book Reviews of Two Dollar Bill (Stone Barrington)
Book Review: Woods spins good mystery in "Two Dollar Bill"
Summary: 5 Stars
It is always great when someone comes back and says thanks for telling me about a particular author. He went on to say that the Stuart Woods book that I recommended to him was fantastic and after he read that one he went out and bought nine more. He kept telling his wife about his new author find and now she is reading them as fast as he finishes them. So that's why I'm choosing one of Stuart's books, Two Dollar Bill, to review this month.
With Stuart Woods I can always count on a lot of action, with lots of twists and turns in the plot, and with familiar and enjoyable characters I've come to know over several books. In this particular series of books the main character is Stone Barrington, an attorney in New York City. Others are his old police partner and still best friend, Lieutenant Dino Bacchetti, of the New York Police Department, Lance Cabot, a CIA heavy-weight, that always seems to give just enough information to either Dino or Stone to help them out in solving various murders, and former long-term girlfriend, Arrington Carter, who comes to town with her nine-year-old son, Peter (who might or might not be Stone's son.) Two Dollar Bill can be read as a stand-alone book, but I think that if you enjoy reading books in a logical progression, you would want to start the Stone Barrington series with New York Dead and follow these characters through their many adventures.
The story opens when Stone meets his new client, Billy Bob Barnstormer, alias "Two Dollar Bill." You know the type - big, Texan, loud, rich, (and wanting to flaunt that he is rich by telling them that he is working on a big deal with Warren Buffett or just mentioning that he flew in on his private jet.) As Stone is getting into Two Dollar Bill's limo, bullets start flying as soon as the door closes, shattering the windows of the limo. Two Dollar Bill and his girl friend end up moving into the guest room of Stone's mansion combination home & office. When the girlfriend ends up dead in Stone's guest room, Stone is the prime suspect. But when Lieutenant Dino starts the inquiry into the death, with the help of the medical examiner, they realize that the time of death has been thrown askew because the murderer used an electric blanket to keep the body warm. Now it is time for Two Dollar Bill to disappear, leaving Stone to try to explain to Dino what was going on. When Stone starts investigating his so-called client, he finds out that he was a CPA in Enid Oklahoma, a used car dealer in San Mateo, California using the identity of Rodney Peeples, a first-class con-man and wanted by various agencies. When Two Dollar Bill re-appears, it seems that he is out gunning for Stone and kidnaps Arrington. This brings in the "Feds" and then the CIA in the person of Lance Cabot.
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Summary of Two Dollar Bill (Stone Barrington)
Two-Dollar Bill delivers all the storytelling twists and whip-smart banter readers have come to love in Stuart Woods's thrillers, as suave Manhattan cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington is back on his home turf caught between a filthy rich conman-who's just become his client-and a beautiful prosecutor.
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