Additional physical formats: Online version:: Stuart Woods' Finders keepersSummary: "After attending an Arrington properties meeting on Martha's Vineyard at the group's newest location, The Vineyard Arrington, Stone Barrington returns to New York City to catch up with his old friend Jack Coulter over lunch, who requests Stone's help in settling his niece Sara into city life post-divorce. Always one to please, Stone takes Sara under his wing. But when various men from Sara's past start getting hurt, and Jack's loved ones find themselves a target in a deadly scheme, it's up to Stone to put the pieces together--before the shrouded conspirer manages to tear them all apart, permanently"-- Provided by publisher.
In this latest thrilling adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Stone Barrington is confronted with a dangerous new threat.
"After attending an Arrington properties meeting on Martha's Vineyard at the group's newest location, The Vineyard Arrington, Stone Barrington returns to New York City to catch up with his old friend Jack Coulter over lunch, who requests Stone's help in settling his niece Sara into city life post-divorce. Always one to please, Stone takes Sara under his wing. But when various men from Sara's past start getting hurt, and Jack's loved ones find themselves a target in a deadly scheme, it's up to Stone to put the pieces together--before the shrouded conspirer manages to tear them all apart, permanently"-- Provided by publisher.
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Kirkus Book Review
The marital woes of a friend and client's great-niece lead Stone Barrington into trouble in an utterly unexpected way. That's the last unexpected thing that happens. Sara Hirschy's estranged husband in Chicago is doing everything he can to slow-walk their divorce, and her lawyer isn't helping much. So Stone promises her uncle, Jack Coulter, that he'll do what he can to help. Within minutes of their meeting, though, it's Jack who needs help, because he's spotted by an old confederate who (correctly) thinks he recognizes him as Johnny Fratelli, who spent close to five years in prison, and fingers him to mobster Ricky Gennaro, who has excellent reasons for wanting Fratelli dead. As Stone, who's old enough to be Sara's father, chastely finds a new lawyer for her and moves on to his own less icky romance with Tamlyn Thompson, the new chief technical officer of Strategic Services, word spreads through New York's underworld that Fratelli, whose cellmate was the late Eduardo Buono, mastermind of the legendary JFK Airport heist, has been given a new nose and a new identity, and the vultures begin to circle. Stone and Jack Coulter still find time to fly to England, where Stone's old friend and lover Dame Felicity Devonshire throws a party to announce her impending retirement as head of MI6. Even before they return, though, Gennaro starts his campaign of vengeance. The body count, initially slow to ascend, accelerates rapidly as different cabals of gangsters compete with each other for that missing robbery haul. But it's hard to care very much about which disposable bad guy will dispose of the other disposable bad guys and come out on top. Lightweight, overextended, and utterly inconsequential, as long as you don't happen to be one of those hoodlums. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
TextSeries: Woods, Stuart. Stone Barrington novel ; Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2025]Description: 405 pages ; 24 cmContent type: