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A rock-solid new Stone Barrington novel Stone Barrington is hired to protect a former intelligence agent with a penchant for antique furniture-and a bad case of amnesia. And what he's forgotten, some will kill for...

Stone Barrington is back in the exciting new adventure from perennial fan favorite Stuart Woods. It’s not often that Stone Barrington finds a woman as accustomed to the jet-set lifestyle as he, so he’s pleasantly surprised when he meets a gorgeous pilot who’s soon moving to New York...

María Paz is a young Latin American woman who, like many others, has come to America chasing a dream. When she is accused of murdering her husband and sentenced to life behind bars, she must struggle to keep hope alive as she works to prove her innocence. But the dangers of prison are not her only obstacles: gaining freedom would mean facing an even greater horror lying in wait outside the prison gates, one that will stop at nothing to get her back.

Nikolai Borodin has been assigned to the Soviet diamond export agency's London station for one purpose only: to keep in close touch with the System, the ruthless worldwide diamond cartel headquartered at 11 Harrowhouse Street. Recently, the System has been buying large quantities of one-carat diamonds mined in Siberia. But now contraband from the same source is showing up on the market, and the System wants the smugglers stopped.

One sweltering summer night, a notorious, international big-game hunter and his beautiful wife are shot dead—at long range—while swimming naked at their seaside estate in Rancho Bonita, California. The police are convinced the perpetrator is an outspoken animal-rights activist—who happens to have both military experience and a criminal record. The evidence seems overwhelming, but soon rumors start to surface that indicate there may be more than one person with the means and motive for murder.

Back when Poke Rafferty first arrived in Bangkok to write a travel guide, some of the old-timers in the Expat Bar on Patpong Road helped him make sense of the city. Now these men - many of whom have been living in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War - have grown old and, in some cases, frail. When a talkative stranger named Arthur Varney turns up, they accept him without suspicion, failing to see that he's actually using them to get to Poke.

Pietro Esposito, herdeiro do trono da máfia italiana, sempre teve muita admiração e respeito pelo seu pai, Matheo Esposito — Don da Cosa Nostra —, por quem foi treinado. Ele cresceu tendo-o como seu maior exemplo. Pietro nunca se importou em saber que seu pai era o chefe da maior organização criminosa do mundo, mas sabia que, como filho mais velho, seria seu sucessor.

Lorenzo é o filho caçula de Enzo Esposito. Ele se tornou um homem adulto e assumiu o seu lugar na máfia, tornando-se um perigoso e delicioso malvadão, assim como o pai. Camila Falcone — filha do renomado juiz Frederico Falcone — cai de paraquedas na vida do bon vivant mafioso, prometendo não facilitar em nada o seu estilo descontraído e cafajeste. Ela é proibida para ele, em muitos sentidos, mas nunca ligou para proibições. Ele sempre gostou do perigo. Juntos, eles são fogo e pólvora, então esse encontro inesperado promete causar uma explosão incontrolável em toda a Itália.