Stone Barrington helps a Broadway star to establish her career and avoid her psycho ex-husband while working to free an art dealer's daughter from the clutches of a drug dealer/con artist. ( )

Stone Barrington is back in New York and looking forward to some downtime working cases for Woodman & Weld that the prestigious law firm does not wish to be seen to be associated with. But when he crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress - and sometime lip model - Stone gets a little more deeply involved with show business than he'd expected. Then the fleecing of a wealthy art dealer's daughter leads him into the worlds of financial fraud, Big Art, and Manhattan's Upper East Side, where opulent co-op apartments are hung with multimillion-dollar paintings, and where family scandals never remain hidden for long. No stranger to high society or the foibles of the rich, Stone soon realizes he must uncover the truth in a world where wealth and beauty may come at a unusually high price. ( )

Something to read on the beach or on an airplane, and of little consequence. ( )

Stuart Woods knows how to write a fast-paced, action filled novel. Our hero solves a couple of crimes while hopping in the sack with several willing accomplices. How trashy! Stone and Dino do manage to solve a crime or two in the process. Not much thought involved...I'll just move along to the next one in the series. ( )

Quick read...not a bad story, but Woods books (especially the Stone Barrington series) have become very formulaic. Move along....you don't need to see his identification...these aren't the droids you're looking for..... ( )