I really liked this book. I've read a couple of other Stone Barrington novels and I thought this was one of the better ones. It made me want to go out and buy more. It's an easy, gripping read with a good storyline.

OK, it wasn't one of Stuart Wood's best books to come down the pike, but it wasn't one of the worst, either. Having kept up with the Stone Barrington and Holly Barker novels, I figured I'd give this latest one a try. Knowing all about the search for rogue ex-CIA agent Teddy Fay, it was very easy to slip into the story and characters even though most of the story was kind of far fetched. As one reviewer noted, the sex scenes weren't integral to the storyline, and it seemed that Stone, Holly, Dino and Genevieve were more interested in constantly drinking pitchers of vodka gimlets and tropical fruit punch. How convenient that the Inn where they were staying featured it's own nude beach? You could just picture Stone and Dino leering at all the naked bodies up and down the beach. Anyway, again we are left wondering whether or not Teddy Fay made it out dead or alive-meaning we can eventually expect another storyline featuring the chase to bring him down once and for all.

In Wood's earlier Teddy Fay novels, Teddy kills a fundamentalist preacher, a conservative Supreme Court justice, and the Republican Speaker of the House. In this one he kills an island dictator and two of his henchmen who used to work for Papa Doc. Teddy is a good guy because he kills such obvious bad guys. In his next novel he will probably wax long about how terrible it is that the country has become so politically divided since Newt and the boys took over Congress. What a hypocrite! (By the way, the story was lacking too.)