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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780399155154
ISBN number: 0399155155
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: September 23, 2008
Publishing house: Putnam Adult
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 2852
Studio: Putnam Adult
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One night at Elaine’s, Stone Barrington—back in Manhattan after chasing down the bad guys in the Caribbean—meets Barton Cabot, older brother of his sometime ally, CIA boss Lance Cabot. Barton’s career in army intelligence is even more top secret than his brother’s, but he’s suffering from amnesia following a random act of violence. Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose memory is chockfull of state secrets, so Lance hires Stone to watch Barton’s back. As Stone discovers, Barton is a spy with a rather unusual hobAuthor name: building and restoring antique furniture. The genteel world of antiques and coin dealers at very first seems a far cry from Stone’s usual underworld of mobsters, murderers, and spies. But Barton also is a man with a past, and one event in particular— in the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty years earlier— is coming back to haunt his present in ways he’d never expected. Stone soon finds out that Barton, and some shady characters of his acquaintance, may be hiding a lot more than just a few forged antiques.
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This book is not Stuart Woods at his best. It's typical formulaic Stone Barrington: gets sucked in by Lance Cabot to help out his brother, enlists Dino's help, beds a few ladies, yada yada yada. The locations hop around so much they are confusing. Even the cameo appearance by my favorite, Holly Barker, was superfluous and not necessary to the story. It was pretty boring stuff.
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But better than most of his others. Other reviewers have given the synopsis, so I won't rehash. Sadly, it seems that Mr. Woods has fallen into the 'submit and outline and pay someone to write it' syndrome. The plot was weak, but oddly I found the subject matter interesting. What all the Stone Barrington novels have in common is the one-dimensional characters. The women sound the same, and you picture them all looking like Lauren Bacall. The men all sound the same (they sound like the women, actually)--all upper-crust, and all in dire need of a contraction or two. And, if it wasn't actually written that Stone takes female lovers (three in this one), you'd swear he was gay. In one extremely odd story line, Stone 'gives' the antiques dealer his new lover because her ex-fiance is making things hard for Stone with the legal firm he works for. She calmly goes along with it, as if one lover is as good as another. Oddly, all the women characters in the Stone Barrington novels are saddled with this demeaning and unrealistic flaw. Despite all of this, I have found myself laughing out loud at some of the dialogue.
If it is reality you're looking for, these novels, and this book in particular, might not be for you.
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I love Stuart Woods and his books, and at the end of his stories, you feel as if you've been on a great ride and want more.
But a lot is missing in HOT MAHOGANY. The story about real and fake antiques is confusing and not easy to follow. It was all over the place and never settled on one storyline A better storyline that should have been developed was the one with Lance Cabot's brother and his loss of memory. This was buried somewhere in the confusion of the book and Stone getting it on with anyone he can. If I want to read about sex, I'll read a romance novel; I read Mr. Woods for a good who done it. Please bring back the Stone Barrington of earlier times, and what happened to Holly Barker and Daisy?
If you like a good detective/mystery this is not it. Read earlier Stuart Woods novels and you can see the difference. It's as if he fired this one off in a hurry to meet a publisher's deadline.
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We loved this book. We always listen to audio books when we travel and Stuart Woods is one of our favorite authors. This book did not disappoint.
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This was purchased as a gift for Christmas and we are looking forward to hearing it on our subsequent road trip. It was received promptly and what could be better than Stone Barrington?!
Stuart Woods is always a good read, but having someone read it to you will be interesting. Stone Barrington is always fun in his adventures as everything is so accurate in description and actions, totally true to life.
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