Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Doing Hard Time/Stuart Woods/307 pages

After Stone Barrington's and Dino Bacchetti's sons, Peter and Ben, graduate from Yale. They, along with Peter's girlfriend Hattie, drive across country to their new jobs with Centurion Studios as writer (Peter), director (Peter), producer (Ben) and composer (Hattie) of Peter's script. I'm sure we'll find out in the next book that this film wins the Oscar in every category. Such is the life of a Barrington. Along the way, they unknowingly get help from a gas station attendant who disposes of two Russians that are following them with the intention of killing them. This gas station attendant is none other than Teddy Fay who has been the center of other Woods books, mostly in the Holly Barker series. Teddy (whose new identity is Billy Burnett or Barnett depending on the day) decides to follow them to L.A. and keep an eye on them. There he teams up with Stone and Mike Freeman to take care of the Russian threat once and for all.

Luckily, you don't have to have read the whole series because Woods spends a good deal of the book on the back story of almost every characters. If you're a fan of Stone, you'll like this one.

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