Type of bind: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780694525195
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN number: 0694525197
Label: HarperAudio
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
Quantity: 2
Printing Date: April 01, 2001
Publishing house: HarperAudio
Release Date: March 20, 2001
Sale Popularity Level: 1116542
Studio: HarperAudio
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Coming on the heels of his bestselling Choke, and Imperfect Strangers, Stuart Woods brings back one of his best loved characters, Stone Barrington, who most recently appears in New York Dead, in a fast paced, rollercoaster ride through the high-profile world of celebrity gossip.
Feared and disliked for both her poison pen and ice queen persona, bi-coastal gossip columnist Amanda Dart finds the tables have turned. The unwitting victim of an anonymous gossipmonger who is faxing to national opinion makers an outrageous scandal sheet revealing the details of her on-going indiscretions with a nationally known takeover artist, Amanda enlists the help of New York lawyer and investigator Stone Barrington to learn the identity of the faxer. Everybody is a suspect in the world of tabloid journalism. As the faxes grow more scathing and begin to expose the peccadilloes of not only Amanda but other members of the gossip community, Barrington winds up with more leads than he can handle, and an employer who is about to take matters dangerously into her own hands. The world of gossip is turned on its head. It becomes clear to Stone that even the most respected members of the social scene will stop at nothing - even murder - to clear their names.
Irresistible as only good gossip can be, Dirt is a mesmerising tale of betrayal and murder set against a backdrop of the fast-paced Manhattan tabloid business; it is filled with the twists and turns that have made Stuart Woods's nocels international hits.
Amazon.com Review:
Woods seems to write smooth and solid thrillers as fast as most of us read them. Cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington of New York Dead returns with all his street smarts intact in this story about a powerful gossipmonger who has the tables turned when dirty pictures of her start appearing on fax machines across the country. The characters are so rich, famous, and upscale that you might get a nosebleed, but Woods has a light, deft touch that makes the book hard to resist.
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Hard to believe, but it was entertaining all the way. Reminds me of the movie "The Devil Wears Prada".
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My husband and I really like Stuart Woods books, and will continue to read every thing he writes.
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Dirt is a novel about the world of celebrity gossip.Amanda Dart is the Queen Bee of that world -a gossip writer who knows everyone and who is courted and feared in equal measure.She finds what it is like to be on the receiving end of gossip when she is caught having sex with a married Atlanta industrialist and blackmailed with the threat of having the story exposed in a scurrilous scandal sheet named Dirt.She hires a private eye -Mr Woods' regular series character Stone Barrington- to investigate .
She is not the sole victim of the magazine and the blackmailers running it .There is also a British "journalist"(an editor of a west Coast tabloid) -and then there is Amanda's boss who is on the verge of being outed as the head of a porn publishing empire.This guy raises the stakes ,bypasses Stone and engages the Mafia to root out the person or persons behind the stories.
The hunt is on -Barrington and the Mafia guys for the blackmailers .snd then in conflict with each other.
Barrington is the least convincing PI in modern crime writing -independently wealthy ,an ex-cop and qualified lawyer,he is suave and sophisticated and seemingly irresistible top women .James Bond-ian in a way and like no PI yopu would find in the phone book if you wanted to hire an investigator.Amanda is a great creation however -a Joan Collins role in waiting ;if they ever make a TV movie of the book she would be great casting .Amanda is tough as old boots -born of poor white trash and utterly unscrupulous she is not above ,murdering her own PA when she discovers her disloyalty
It is schlocky and wildly improbable and I like a bit more grit in my crime writing but if you want a night or two of escapism and gloss in your reading you could do a lot worse
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This book was a hoot and a half to read - a vicious gossip-monger who has always been careful to keep her own dirty laundry hidden finds out she hasn't done as good a job as she would like and finds the tables turned. She turns to Stone Barrington to get help. As things progress, more and more of the high and mighty find themselves being drug through the mud. I had lots of good laughs in this, and of course the suspense was great as well. The twists and turns were everything you would expect out of Stuart Woods and more and the mystery plotting was tight. Expect some pins and needles, because you're not going to want to put it down - you'll sit right where you are until you're finished!
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My very first Stuart Woods book and I'm not likely to pick up another. Not a likeable character to be found other than the domestic help. I didn't care what happened to anyone.
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