Dirt
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by 
catsalive
from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Monday, November 20, 2006
catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Monday, November 20, 2006
From Publishers Weekly
It may be his fifth novel in three years, but this slickly entertaining suspenser displays Woods at the top of his game with no signs of flagging. A sizable supporting cast of paparazzi-challenged beautiful people share the action as Stone Barrington, the suave ex-cop attorney-hero of New York Dead, makes his comeback. In this superbly paced tale, Stone gets involved in a blackmail scheme involving Amanda Dart, a much-feared, nationally syndicated gossip columnist. After Amanda is photographed in bed in a Manhattan hotel with a married real-estate magnate, a fax headlined "DIRT" and presenting both the photo and details of Amanda's tryst is sent to a weighty list of prominent people and major media outlets. The DIRT fax-web quickly expands to snare the gay but closeted editor of a sleazy L.A. tabloid. When Stone is hired by Amanda to sniff out who's spilling the pearls about these jealously guarded privacies, one of his operatives, a retired N.Y.C. cop, is murdered. The intrigue deepens when one of the perps is identified as closely resembling a male model in a Vanity Fair cologne ad. Dripping with name-dropping, haute couture and pricey playthings, and spiced with hormonal aerobics as Stone trolls the siren-infested waters of upscale Manhattan, the narrative rockets toward an abrupt but absolutely stunning denouement. Using all his skills here, and subtly reminiscent of the waggish P.G. Wodehouse, Woods delivers a marvelously sophisticated, thoroughly modern old-fashioned read.
It may be his fifth novel in three years, but this slickly entertaining suspenser displays Woods at the top of his game with no signs of flagging. A sizable supporting cast of paparazzi-challenged beautiful people share the action as Stone Barrington, the suave ex-cop attorney-hero of New York Dead, makes his comeback. In this superbly paced tale, Stone gets involved in a blackmail scheme involving Amanda Dart, a much-feared, nationally syndicated gossip columnist. After Amanda is photographed in bed in a Manhattan hotel with a married real-estate magnate, a fax headlined "DIRT" and presenting both the photo and details of Amanda's tryst is sent to a weighty list of prominent people and major media outlets. The DIRT fax-web quickly expands to snare the gay but closeted editor of a sleazy L.A. tabloid. When Stone is hired by Amanda to sniff out who's spilling the pearls about these jealously guarded privacies, one of his operatives, a retired N.Y.C. cop, is murdered. The intrigue deepens when one of the perps is identified as closely resembling a male model in a Vanity Fair cologne ad. Dripping with name-dropping, haute couture and pricey playthings, and spiced with hormonal aerobics as Stone trolls the siren-infested waters of upscale Manhattan, the narrative rockets toward an abrupt but absolutely stunning denouement. Using all his skills here, and subtly reminiscent of the waggish P.G. Wodehouse, Woods delivers a marvelously sophisticated, thoroughly modern old-fashioned read.
Journal Entry 2 by catsalive at Surprise RABCK in A fellow BookCrosser, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, November 29, 2006
catsalive at Surprise RABCK in A fellow BookCrosser, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (11/29/2006 UTC) at Surprise RABCK in A fellow BookCrosser, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
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RELEASE NOTES: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, fungirl503!!!
This book I found on your wishlist will be a bit late by the time it gets to you but I did send it on the 30th.
got this book in the mail and what a sweet surprised..thankyou so much!!! I also love the post card :) not to late for my birthday is 6 days late :) hold for snowy652
Stone Barrington is such a ladies man. If he is not sleeping with this one, he is sleeping with another lady.
He also needs to find out who is sending faxing claiming themselves "dirt" and spending information all over the place. But the end it looks like they get what is coming to them.
This book is going to snowy652
He also needs to find out who is sending faxing claiming themselves "dirt" and spending information all over the place. But the end it looks like they get what is coming to them.
This book is going to snowy652
Journal Entry 5 by fungirl503 at -- By Hand Or Post, Ray/Ring, RABCK in Portland, Oregon USA on Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (11/27/2007 UTC) at -- By Hand Or Post, Ray/Ring, RABCK in Portland, Oregon USA
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to snowy652
to snowy652
book arrived while I was away visiting my parents -- thanks for the trade
I will comment on the book once I have read it and then pass it on
I will comment on the book once I have read it and then pass it on
