Naked Greed (Stone Barrington Series #34)

by Stuart Woods

Overview

Stone Barrington gets involved in some dangerous business in this outstanding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.
 
Stone Barrington isn’t one to turn away in the face of danger, so when he witnesses a tricky situation, he jumps in to lend a hand. He never expected his involvement would lead to a mutually beneficial business deal with a prominent gentleman who requires the ever-discreet services of Woodman & Weld. But in the ruthless corporate world no good deed goes unpunished, and Stone soon finds himself the target of a ragtag group of criminal toughs who don’t appreciate his interference in their dealings. From the isolated landscape of Maine to the white sand beaches of Key West, the trail of deception, theft, and murder will lead to a perilous confrontation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451477217
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/05/2016
Series:	Stone Barrington Series
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	97,698
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 7.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Stuart Woods is the author of more than eighty-five novels, including the #1 New York Times-bestselling Stone Barrington series. He is a native of Georgia and began his writing career in the advertising industry. Chiefs, his debut in 1981, won the Edgar Award. An avid sailor and pilot, Woods lives in Florida, Maine, and Connecticut.

Hometown:

Key West, Florida; Mt. Desert, Maine; New York, New York

Date of Birth:

January 9, 1938

Place of Birth:

Manchester, Georgia

Education:

B.A., University of Georgia, 1959

Website:

http://www.stuartwoods.com

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What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for Stuart Woods
 
“Goes down as smoothly as a glass of Knob Creek.” —Publishers Weekly
 
“Stone Barrington is back to give fans another fun-filled ride of action and suspense.”—Suspense Magazine

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Stuart Woods

“Stuart Woods is a no-nonsense, slam-bang storyteller.”—Chicago Tribune

“A world-class mystery writer...I try to put Woods’s books down and I can’t.”—Houston Chronicle 

“Mr. Woods, like his characters, has an appealing way of making things nice and clear.”—The New York Times

“Woods certainly knows how to keep the pages turning.”—Booklist

“Since 1981, readers have not been able to get their fill of Stuart Woods’ New York Times bestselling novels of suspense.”—Orlando Sentinel

“Woods’s Stone Barrington is a guilty pleasure...he’s also an addiction that’s harder to kick than heroin.”—Contra Costa Times (California)

From the Publisher

05/11/2015
Bestseller Woods’s glittering 34th novel featuring Stone Barrington (after Hot Pursuit) finds the suave cop turned attorney helping Jose “Pepe” Perado, a Texas brewer, open a beer distributorship, and possibly a brewery, in New York City. The opposition, in the manner of 1930s gangster films, intends to “dissuade him.” So Stone, with the help of buddy Dino Bacchetti, the commissioner of police, fights back. Later, Pepe slides into the background, and the assorted bad guys offer a primer on how to rob banks, among other crimes, as the body count rises. Stone still has time for a stellar sex life, bedding any woman who crosses his path and is a) beautiful, b) wealthy, c) well connected, or d) all of the above. Over dinner at the Four Seasons, one such damsel tells Stone, “I want to go back to your house, then fuck your brains out.” Once in bed, she takes “him in her hand.” Some readers may not immediately realize him means penis. Why so coy? Agent: Anne Sibbald, Janklow & Nesbit. (July)

Publishers Weekly

02/01/2015
Who knew beer making and distribution could cause so much trouble? Stone Barrington finds out when he rescues a prominent brewery owner from two rogue policemen. Woods on his usual roll.

Library Journal

2015-05-19
In between rounds of pie-in-the-sky international intrigue, Stone Barrington takes time out to help a San Antonio brewer find a new New York distributor—and inherits all the brewer's enemies. Jose Perado just wants to sell his family's product, Cerveza Perado, in the Big Apple. When Stone rescues him outside a restaurant, he's getting hassled and worse by a pair of cops, Eugene Ryan and Al Parisi, who turn out to be ex-cops discouraging Perado on behalf of Al's father, Gino, whose Bowsprit Beverages, the distribution firm he inherited from his mobbed-up father, Perado has just let go. Gino soon supplements Gene and Al with some proper muscle, Frank Russo and Charlie Carney, who follow Stone and his latest conquest, sex-addicted advertising art director Caroline Woodhouse, to Stone's island retreat in Maine and back, growing more impatient all the while. Since international terrorism never really takes a day off, Stone's soon playing host to Maj. Ian Rattle, an MI6 officer marked for assassination by the Middle East no-goodniks who can't accept the fact that the door has closed on Hot Pursuit (2015). When somebody takes a shot at Rattle, Stone's old friend Dino Bacchetti, the NYPD Commissioner, suggests that maybe Stone was the intended target, and the two plot a retaliatory strike that sends the bad guys packing. Pursuing different dreams, Gene, Frank, and Charlie all end up in Florida, where they hatch nefarious new schemes, make new enemies of their own, and wait for the page count to reach the end. The stakes seem so low throughout this installment, filled with dead ends and dropped stitches, that you can't help wondering if Woods has set his word processor to auto-type.

Kirkus Reviews