Coming on the heels of his bestselling "Choke" and "Imperfect
Strangers," Stuart Woods brings back one of his best-loved characters,
Stone Barrington, in a fast-paced roller-coaster ride through the
murderous world of high-profile celebrity gossip.
Feared and disliked for both her poison pen and ice-queen persona,
gossip columnist Amanda Dart finds the tables have turned. Someone is
faxing an outrageous scandal sheet revealing the details of Amanda's
ongoing indiscretions with a famous takeover artist to national opinion
makers. Amanda enlists the help of New York lawyer-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 mesmerizing tale of
betrayal and murder set against a backdrop of the rapid-fire Manhattan
tabloid business; it is filled with the twists and turns that have made
Stuart Woods' novels international hits.
