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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451223609
ISBN number: 0451223608
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: May 06, 2008
Publishing house: Signet
Sale Popularity Level: 9256
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Stone Barrington embarks on an exotic adventure...
Stone Barrington and Holly Barker pursue a master spy and murderer in a tropical paradise that’s getting hotter by the minute…
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I like to read. I read lots of books. Once I start a book, I want to finish it. Not this book. It's a 2 week book from my library and in 2 weeks of trying to read it, I'm not even half way through it.
The concept behind the story is interesting - try to find a guy who changes his identity. The location is a tropical island. The story moved along at the speed of someone trying to run in mud. There were random instances of nude swimming and sunbathing thrown in, I'm not sure what that was about.
I thought this would be an interesting book reading the flap and maybe it's interesting to somebody, but not me!
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I've read the entire Stone Barrington series back to back, and this one is very uneventful and quite a disappointment. There's nothing new or exciting about this book -- and the Holly Barker character adds no value or interest to the story line (which is true in most of the cases where Stuart Woods uses her character with Stone). If you love Stone and just want to keep up with the series read this, but otherwise you're not missing anything.
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Stone Barrington joins forces with Holly Barker to help run down a criminal mastermind who is driving the CIA crazy. In the process of tracking this criminal down, Stone, Dino and Holly find themselves back on St. Marks (which Stone previously visited in Dead in the Water: A Novel). However, behind the beautiful scenery and the tourist attractions, there are also to be found more than a few American expatriates with something to hide, as well as a corrupt system of politicians that are running the place. As they stalk their prey, they find that more than one person on St. Marks has a reason to want to hide - and that maybe the person they are seeking is right in front of them.
It seems rather ludicrous to call this one a Stone Barrington novel, as it features Holly Barker just as much. I think it is probably time for Woods to stop writing individual stories and just go with the melding of all his worlds into one. However, this is a nice book for a quick read - a good book to read on a plane, or while sitting on a lovely sunny beach. It's brain candy, but it doesn't taste too bad.
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This is my very first Woods book and it'll be my last. The characters here are wooden and the plot so linear and predictible. And the ending is unsatisfying, leaving the reader to ask "Is That All There Is?" Barrington and company don't seem like very nice people and they can't seem to decide if they are on this Caribbean island to find someone or if they just want to drink and make whoopee. Also, there's a political undertone I find unpleasant. On one page the author takes a gratuitous swipe at President Bush as allegedly favoring torture, while on another page Woods' characters seem to blithely countenance assassination as a worthy activity. In Woods' mind: torture bad, assassination good. Nah, this book just doesn't cut it, for more than a few reasons.
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I should have known after his last book, that this would stink also. I don't know why I keep going back to Woods, probably because I run out of things to listen to. I will not be buying any more of his books or even going to the library to get them. It is not worth it. I could not even get past the very first few chapters.
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