The Short Forever: Summary and book reviews of The Short Forever by Stuart Woods, plus links to an excerpt from The Short Forever and a biography of Stuart Woods.

In The Short Forever, the unflappable Stone Barrington comes face to face with two men whose lives are wrapped in shadows and lies—and who both still feel a sting of betrayal they can never forget. Stone's new client, John Bartholomew, asks him to fly to London in search of a young woman whom he suspects has taken up with a mysterious character. Bartholomew asks Stone to see what he can find to discredit the man, Cabot, which seems a simple enough task, and Stone is eager to spend time in London and with his friend Sarah Buckminster. What Stone finds is more bizarre than he had expected. The woman in question isn't related to Bartholomew in quite the way he had implied. And it appears that Bartholomew and Cabot, who once worked together on a secretive assignment, now have very different versions of what went wrong. When Stone himself is implicated in a shocking double murder, he and his partner, Dino, know they have stepped into a strange case unlike any other.

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Kirkus Reviews Seasoned fans will know better than to take the spy stuff any more seriously than the rest of this potluck supper.   Booklist - Kristine Huntley Filling his story with enough twists and turns to dizzy even the most seasoned reader, Woods keeps the tension high until the last page.   Publishers Weekly Woods may have left behind the police action of L.A. Dead, but he churns up plenty of conflict and twisted plotting in this speedy tale. Several bombshell revelations and multiple resolutions combine with the cinematic plot for a perfect flight or beach read.

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