Unbound (Stone Barrington Series #44)

by Stuart Woods

Overview

Stone Barrington is pulled along for the ride when a friend pursues a perilous course of vengeance in the newest novel from #1 New York Times–bestselling author Stuart Woods.

In the wake of a personal tragedy, former CIA operative Teddy Fay—now a successful Hollywood film producer known as Billy Barnett—takes a leave of absence to travel and grieve, and lands in Santa Fe in the company of his friends Stone Barrington and Ed Eagle. There, fate hands him an unexpected opportunity to exact quiet revenge for his recent loss, from a man who helped to cover up the crime.

But when his enemy wises up to Teddy’s machinations, a discreet game of sabotage escalates to a potentially lethal battle. From the arid splendor of the New Mexico desert to the glamour of Hollywood’s rolling hills, it will take all of Stone Barrington’s diplomacy and skill to maneuver for Teddy’s advantage while keeping innocents out of the crossfire.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780735217188
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/28/2018
Series:	Stone Barrington Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.10(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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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

11/27/2017
Hollywood producer Billy Barnett (aka former CIA agent Teddy Faye) takes center stage in bestseller Woods’s inventive 44th Stone Barrington novel (after 2017’s Quick & Dirty), while Stone offers guidance from the sidelines. After a drunk driver kills Billy’s wife while she’s crossing the street in Beverly Hills, Billy takes a leave of absence from his studio and starts driving east. He ends up stopping in Santa Fe, N.Mex., where, coincidentally, nasty film mogul Dax Baxter, the husband of the woman who ran down his wife, is making a western. Dax has the connections to ensure that his wife, now in rehab, doesn’t get prosecuted. Under yet another alias, Billy succeeds in securing a job on Dax’s movie and starts exacting his revenge in small ways on the set. After figuring out that Billy is a threat and why, Dax hires a Russian thug to take care of him. Thanks to his CIA training, Billy proves more than a match for the bad guys as the action escalates in a series of tit-for-tat reprisals. Newcomers will find this installment an easy entry into Woods’s alluring world of wealth, power, and crime. Agent: Anne Sibbald, Janklow & Nesbit. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

2017-11-13
Invincible New York attorney Stone Barrington (Quick & Dirty, 2017, etc.) is shoved to the sidelines by even more formidable ex-CIA agent Teddy Fay, now operating under the names Billy Barnett when he's producing films for Centurion Studios and Ted Shirley when he's seeking full-throated revenge.Whatever impulses toward social compliance may have survived Teddy's checkered earlier adventures (Smooth Operator, with Parnell Hall, 2017, etc.) are instantly killed off when he's widowed by the wife of dislikable Hollywood producer Dax Baxter, who runs over Teddy's own wife after a "three-cosmo lunch" and then retreats into a private clinic to escape prosecution. Asking his boss, Stone's son Peter, for a leave of absence, Teddy drives to Santa Fe, where, as Ted Shirley, he gets himself hired on Baxter's latest shoot. Sensing danger, Baxter hires Russian assassin Dimitri Kasov to neutralize Teddy, but he's no more successful than Baxter's own bodyguards were. When Teddy, unmasked but undimmed in his resolve, heads back to Los Angeles with Sally Ryder, whom he's picked up at the shoot, in tow, Baxter redoubles his efforts to have him killed. Despite Teddy's well-honed survival skills, all might be lost if it weren't for the timely intervention of Sgt. Carlos Rivera, who works the auto theft detail for the Beverly Hills PD. Carlos gets into the middle of this battle royal in a most unlikely way, but once he's established himself firmly there, fans will recognize that there's no hope for Baxter or anyone he hires in the high-fatality rounds that follow.As uncertain in its pacing and structure as a Road Runner cartoon—you just never know who'll be abruptly discarded and who'll turn out to matter in the Woods world—and equally formulaic in the conduct of individual episodes and the final outcome.

Kirkus Reviews