"New York Times" bestselling author Stuart Woods kept a nation of
readers glued to their seats as one of his best-loved characters,
ex-cop-turned-Manhattan attorney and investigator Stone Barrington,
battled a viciously corrupt Caribbean minister of justice in "Dead in
the Water" and fought the gossip-mongering hordes of the newspaper
business in "Dirt, " proving that the line between what's legal and
what's lethal can be deadly fire.